Sean,
New York Times article to the contrary (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html), the "miracle berry" did not make everything taste like a warm Krispy Kreme donut. It did, however, lead to our drinking cranberry concentrate, vodka, and Tabasco cocktails and quite happily eating plain rhubarb and lime.
It was great to see you. I'd like to draft a list of potential papers on which you and Jeff can collaborate, both to keep you around and so that y'all have all the hard stuff figured out by the time I finish generals.
Thank you for the kind (and useful!) words on my paper. It's taken me a long time to reply partially because at your prompting I've been trying to figure out how to consider the question of value seriously. I worry that value criticism fades quickly into either ethics or narcissism, but you're right to point out that arguments made about literature--and high literature in particular--do not necessarily travel easily into other domains.
I don't suspect I'll do much more with this writing as it is, though I'll continue to have recourse to your comments and to the comments that my friends posted there. The Nietzsche sounds great, though, and I may go re-read The Rhizome.
In any case, thanks! I'm sure I'll see you soon.
Matthew
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