Today I was invited to be a featured guest at a Yale Univeristy master's tea. Apparently, some of the students had requested that I be invited, God bless 'em.
One of the more wonderful things about Yale is that they have these amazing "teas," in which a guest of some repute is invited to one of the residential colleges (Yale has several of these) to "have tea" with any students and faculty members who are interested in attending. When I was a student at Yale, I "had tea" with such distinguished guests as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Louis Malle, W.S. Merwin, Carl Andre, and Yves Bonnefoy. It was a rare and beautiful thing to be able to converse freely with these people in a setting so conducive to the give and take of actual dialogue.
I'm kind of thrilled and honored.
Go, bulldogs.
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11:52 PM
