Winding up
O dear things already fading, so much happening!
Saturday evening: parties! good but blurred.
Sunday: after prebooking for next year...
Lunch with
coffeeandink and
truepenny, which was lovely.
Green room slot for which I had forgotten to provide myself with a book... and it was fairly quiet even if it was just me on duty.
Panel on the Politics of Posterity which was v good even though on reflection I felt it was pulling in at least two different directions - on the one hand canon formation on the other preservation of sf writers' papers and related materials, and although there is a connection there are canonical writers who are not well documented (HAI, Mr S of Stratford!) apart from their, you know, actual works. And that you can sometimes reconstruct quite a lot about a person (as I should know, hem-hem) even if you don't have personal papers. And there are issues about judgement about who belongs in the, or a, canon. But, on the prehensile tail, I also think that there are issues and movements which have been given undue significance because there are substantial (and accessible archival materials whereas other strands and trends are less well-documented.
Plus, I did a certain amount of I R ARKIVIST, I SHOW U MI KNOWINGZ (
oursin bores for Europe, while the shade of Sir Hilary Jenkinson claps politely).
This was followed by panel I was moderating on the Historical Novel, which I think went quite well even if there was possibly a touch of late afternoon lethargy: the panelists were all good and articulate and enough audience members were interested to the point of intervention that there were no embarassing silences. Also, I did not need to bring into play all the get-things-going questions I had written down, but I did get to mention Mitchison.
Pleasant walk with
commodorified to look at the statue of Lincoln, via the lake and interesting architectural features of the university campus.
Batmoot at the Irish Pub -
jonquil alas unable to attend due to sickness, but
commodorified and
damned_colonial both present.
commodorified suggested that it may have been a bit subdued by Bat standards as no-one left the pub, but I pointed out that we were sitting outside, which might have influenced this. And that the people on the table next to us did in fact leave while we were still there, though it might just have been because they had finished their meal/drinks.
Parties not really happening yet when I went to look, spent some time in the bar with
veejane and
cofax7 and others including
teckelvik, where I risked a second margarita, from which, hey, no ill-effects, WIN (unless I've forgotten stuff best not remembered...).
Parties! Rather fuzzy, funny about that.
Better night's sleep than I might have anticipated.
Nearly ended up on the wrong panel this morning due to misreading room name, but instead of talking about porn I did end up talking about tricksters, sola for the first 5-10 minutes as only mod and I were there, other panel members did turn up and
starkeymonster is much better equipped to talk about tricksters than I am, fortunately, because I was already wildly tapdancing and vamping. Audience interested and raising various points, comments, questions.
Brunch with
commodorified,
fairestcat,
ellen_fremedon,
olivia_circe,
aria and
damned_colonial.
Ran into various people to whom said fond farewells and regrets that, as always, Wiscon is over before one has had all the long conversations one would have liked to have had.
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