MEMBER BLOG TAG: absence
| Monday, April 23, 2007 11:36AM | | | | Excuses | Tags: absence, excuses, festival
| | | | The PEN World Voices Festival begins today, and, as Barnaby understands it, Paul Auster will be receiving a wet, rosy kiss from the ghost of Charles de Gaulle at precisely 8 pm, on top of the Chrysler Building. Also in the works, a reenactment of the Confusion of Tongues at Katz's Delicatessen, where delegates from one hundred and sixty seven countries, autonomous provinces, and crown colonies will all, at the sharp sound of a referee's whistle blown by a fully-qualified Viennese psychoanalyst, begin speaking as loudly as they can at the tops of their voices. Highlights are expected to include an argument about whether Chinese consists of "languages" or "dialects," conducted without translation in Fukkienese, Mandarin, Hakka, Cantonese, and Taiwanese; a debate about... | | | | | |
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