graveyard

This may be Bloomington, Indiana - but the view through the window outside the conference rooms (the Tree rooms, that is - Walnut, Dogwood, and, yes, Oak, and Persimmon, and a whole forest of others) could be any November day in England.  This seems about right for the cognitive dissonance of spending three days discussing things Victorian in the middle of the US - with some stretches out into the broader world (as with Sukanya Banerjee's terrific keynote today) - while in England itself today, there was both a huge pro-Palestinian, pro-cease fire march, and a scarily unpleasant display of aggression from British fascists. Sometimes (especially when hanging out with British friends) it's hard to know where one's mind has settled down to roost.