Baltimore conference

[Damaso Marte]

I live an hour from Baltimore and was very excited when this was announced, but I find the price absurdly high and won't be attending.

[Pcdunn]

Ha! Another ripper suspect reference!

I read a book once where there was a Poe themed bar and in order to get a drink you had to answer the question "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

Alice never figured it out, and Carroll didn't write it down, that I know of-- so perhaps any answer will do?

[Abby Normal]

I read a book once where there was a Poe themed bar and in order to get a drink you had to answer the question "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

Both were written on by Poe.

[Errata]

Both were written on by Poe.

that's one of the answers. I think there are maybe a dozen floating around?

[ChrisGeorge]

I read a book once where there was a Poe themed bar and in order to get a drink you had to answer the question "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

Both were written on by Poe.

"How is a raven like a writing desk?" was a question posed by the Mad Hatter at the tea party in Alice in Wonderland Chapter VII by Lewis Carroll. Some see it as a reference to Poe, because the American was always wondering about his own possible madness.

[ChrisGeorge]

I live an hour from Baltimore and was very excited when this was announced, but I find the price absurdly high and won't be attending.

We are putting on a top quality event. People will pay for a worthwhile event, and frankly we have to cover our expenses as well.

[Shaggyrand]

I read a book once where there was a Poe themed bar and in order to get a drink you had to answer the question "How is a raven like a writing desk?"

I think that "Poe's Tavern", a small chain in South Carolina and Florida, did that. Don't know if they did at all location but the one in Atlantic Beach used to.
The Annabel Lee Tavern in Baltimore doesn't but it is a place most groovy.

[Rosella]

I thought the Mad Hatter asked Alice that riddle at the Tea Party but never gave her the answer?

[Shaggyrand]

I thought the Mad Hatter asked Alice that riddle at the Tea Party but never gave her the answer?

That is where it comes from. "Because Poe wrote on both" is the most famous answer given by Chess master and puzzle writer Sam Loyd. Though Carroll did give the answer in a later edition's forward but the editors thought a purposeful backward spelling was a mistake, corrected it to the word they thought it was supposed to be and for years thought to be more gibberish. It was about 80 years before someone figured it out.

[Abby Normal]

We are putting on a top quality event. People will pay for a worthwhile event, and frankly we have to cover our expenses as well.

Exactly. And I for one am so bummed I cant go to this but the money is the least of it. I grew up near Baltimore and it is near and dear to my Heart!!!


Chris, can I obtain transcripts of any of the talks?
I am especially interested in yours on Poe!

"Reynolds!"

[ChrisGeorge]

Exactly. And I for one am so bummed I cant go to this but the money is the least of it. I grew up near Baltimore and it is near and dear to my Heart!!!


Chris, can I obtain transcripts of any of the talks?
I am especially interested in yours on Poe!

"Reynolds!"

Thanks for your interest and support, Abby. We are sorry you cannot be with us in Baltimore in April. Next time perhaps! We are planning RipperCon to be a biennial event, with the next one taking place in 2018 and I already know of several people who can't come this year but who say they will come then.

As for a transcript or recording of the upcoming talks in Baltimore, Jonathan Menges has spoken of recording at least part of the event for Rippercast. I will let Jonathan address that side of things, though I do know that he might need to assess the situation during the weekend to know exactly how much of RipperCon will be recorded for posterity.

Cheers

Chris

[Abby Normal]

Thanks for your interest and support, Abby. We are sorry you cannot be with us in Baltimore in April. Next time perhaps! We are planning RipperCon to be a biennial event, with the next one taking place in 2018 and I already know of several people who can't come this year but who say they will come then.

As for a transcript or recording of the upcoming talks in Baltimore, Jonathan Menges has spoken of recording at least part of the event for Rippercast. I will let Jonathan address that side of things, though I do know that he might need to assess the situation during the weekend to know exactly how much of RipperCon will be recorded for posterity.

Cheers

Chris

Thanks Chris

well if your talk on Poe is ever available-in print or recorded, I would be very much interested in it!

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks Chris

well if your talk on Poe is ever available-in print or recorded, I would be very much interested in it!

Hi again Abby

Thanks once more. My talk in Baltimore at RipperCon on Saturday, April 9 will be different, because my thoughts on the death of Poe have evolved, but I wrote about Poe's death on my blog back in 2009. That was exactly 160 years after the writer was mysteriously found insensible on a Baltimore sidewalk outside a tavern on East Lombard Street and four days before his death, never having fully recovered, at Washington College Hospital on Broadway, Baltimore, on October 7, 1849. Here's the link --

http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/2009/11/mystery-of-death-of-edgar-allan-poe.html

(The comments on the blog posting are useful too, I think.)

Best regards

Chris

Nevermore

[Errata]

That is where it comes from. "Because Poe wrote on both" is the most famous answer given by Chess master and puzzle writer Sam Loyd. Though Carroll did give the answer in a later edition's forward but the editors thought a purposeful backward spelling was a mistake, corrected it to the word they thought it was supposed to be and for years thought to be more gibberish. It was about 80 years before someone figured it out.

The other one's I've heard are "One is a rest for pens, and the other a pest for wrens" and the meta "There is a B in both, and an N in neither."

[Abby Normal]

The other one's I've heard are "One is a rest for pens, and the other a pest for wrens" and the meta "There is a B in both, and an N in neither."

and-they both have inky quills