So ... I might have been talking about Bark today (tree bark, not canine voices), but the paper that I'm workshopping/discussing tomorrow morning (plus some other readings) with what seem like a super-smart load of graduate students here at Princeton is on ... yes, Dandelions. So it should go well, no? It's been really great being back here: just half an hour in Labyrinth Books, opposite the campus, had me feeling that this was a world in which history/the humanities actually mattered - as did the response to my talk, and dinner afterwards. Sometimes (and perhaps this is especially true towards the end of a semester) a day or so of academic life away from home base is exactly what one needs to get one's brain and spirits working again.
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