SL Lit Fest 2008 02 02 Basevi
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[13:06] Marilena Basevi: thank you!
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[13:06] Hollyjean Allen: are you sure?
[13:06] Amalia Broome: yes
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[13:06] Amalia Broome: it's just a short skirt
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[13:07] Marilena Basevi: it's very odd -- the talk button is shaded and doesn't respond, and the voice box, the one that lists the voice ennabled avatars, is blank
[13:07] Marilena Basevi: I will be happy to type out my talk ---
[13:07] Marilena Basevi: punt, you know?
[13:07] Hollyjean Allen: a basic SL skill
[13:08] Stolvano Barbosa: do you ant to type Marilna?
[13:08] Marilena Basevi: my apologies!
[13:08] Hollyjean Allen: No need, mari!
[13:08] Stolvano Barbosa: or cut and paste your book into chat?
[13:08] Stolvano Barbosa: lol
[13:08] Marilena Basevi: I will do what I need to --
[13:08] Marilena Basevi: cut and paste?
[13:08] Marilena Basevi: lordie
[13:08] Marilena Basevi: give me a minute
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[13:08] Amalia Broome: is it on a notecard?
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[13:09] Stolvano Barbosa: ok folks
[13:09] Stolvano Barbosa: audio difficulties
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[13:09] Stolvano Barbosa: I'm Stolvano Barbosa which you can tell by the sign over my head
[13:09] Stolvano Barbosa: I am here to introduce Marilena Basevi
[13:10] Stolvano Barbosa: You are very lucky because Marilena is going to read from a book by Marilyn Johnson
[13:10] Stolvano Barbosa: Marilyn has been a writer for Life magazine and an editor at Esquire, Rebook, and Outside.
[13:10] Stolvano Barbosa: That was before she became obsessed with obituaries. LOL
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[13:10] Stolvano Barbosa: In her book THE DEAD BEAT she explores the world of those who write obituaries and those who love reading them.
[13:11] Stolvano Barbosa: Without further ado here is Marilena.
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[13:11] Stolvano Barbosa: she just crashed
[13:11] Hollyjean Allen: she decided to crash.
[13:11] Stolvano Barbosa: I will now do a song and dance
[13:11] Hollyjean Allen: Time for the old soft shoe!
[13:11] Stolvano Barbosa: interpretive dance of Marilyn's book
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[13:12] Stolvano Barbosa: she is back!
[13:12] Hollyjean Allen: Nice landing!
[13:12] Stolvano Barbosa: I encourage you all to buy and read Marilyn's book THE BEAD BEAT
[13:12] Marilena Basevi: well, thank you stoly
[13:12] Stolvano Barbosa: I am going to jump off stage and let Marilena take over
[13:12] Novalli Worbridge: (it's good)
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[13:12] Marilena Basevi: I think it would make sense for me to answer questions about it
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[13:13] Maxito Ricardo: Always interest in librarians
[13:13] Marilena Basevi: thank you all for coming
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[13:14] Marilena Basevi: That is how I discovered the topic for the librarian book
[13:14] Daisyblue Hefferman: old librarians never die.
[13:14] Marilena Basevi: I read some fabulous obituaries of librarians
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[13:14] Marilena Basevi: For instance, Henriette Avram, not technically a librarian
[13:14] Marilena Basevi: but she helped automate the cataloging system at the Library of Congress
[13:14] Daisyblue Hefferman: I'd love to have read Melvil's
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[13:14] Marilena Basevi: her story made me interested in this era....
[13:15] Marilena Basevi: one of tremendous change in your field....
[13:15] Daisyblue Hefferman: If he wasn't already dead, I'd have killed him myself
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[13:15] Marilena Basevi: the fact that you can read obituaries from around the world online has affected them
[13:15] Marilena Basevi: obituaries also went through some tremendous changes
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Marilena Basevi: the British style of obituaries, very rude in
some cases, has influenced some obit writer in the
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Marilena Basevi: does anyone read the
[13:16] Stolvano Barbosa: gareth?
[13:16] Hollyjean Allen: these are professional obit writers?
[13:16] Marilena Basevi: I read an obit for a man today who "could not abide trifle"
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[13:16] Novalli Worbridge: lol,
[13:16] Marilena Basevi: yes, professional obit writers, journalists who write about the dead
[13:16] Amalia Broome: the dessert or small things?
[13:16] Marilena Basevi: they didn't mean trifles, either
[13:17] Marilena Basevi: the dessert!
[13:17] Marilena Basevi: He abhored ratatoille, one said -- however that is spelled!
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[13:17] Daisyblue Hefferman: I think a lot of cub rep[orters get sentenced to t writing the obits
[13:17] Marilena Basevi: that used to be the case more in earlier days.....still happens
[13:17] Novalli Worbridge: i dunno, I met a professional obit writer on my course
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[13:17] Novalli Worbridge: he loved the job
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: there are many corrections necessary as a rule
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: it's good training.....
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: but what does a cub reporter know about life?
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: to write an obituary well is a great gift
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: requiring perspective, knowledge, wonderful reporting skills,
[13:18] Marilena Basevi: the ability to condense a whole life into a few column inches....
[13:19] Marilena Basevi: and humor, which is such a part of life, is also part of the obituary
[13:19] Novalli Worbridge: the telling detail i guess
[13:19] Marilena Basevi: My interest in obituaries stems from 1986
[13:19] Marilena Basevi: I read the NYTimes, and noticed that two scientists' obits were side by side....
[13:19] Marilena Basevi: the scientist who isolated vitamin C....
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[13:20] Marilena Basevi: what a coincidence!
[13:20] Marilena Basevi: And I collected such coincidences
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[13:21] Marilena Basevi: hello!
[13:21] Hollyjean Allen: Make yourself at home
[13:21] Marilena Basevi: I had a great deal of fun writing that book and getting to know the extraordinary writers who have brought such perspective to our lives
[13:21] Marilena Basevi: And I am having a lot of fun writing about librarians
[13:22] Marilena Basevi: such tremendously intelligent and thoughtful people
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[13:22] Novalli Worbridge: what's the sweetest obit you came across?
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Marilena Basevi: I had the pleasure of meeting a number of second
life librarians in
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[13:22] Barrow Runningbear: silly sim lag
[13:22] Barrow Runningbear: makes for odd bedfellows
[13:22] Marilena Basevi: sweet?
[13:22] Bryte Jewell: i can give you what you've missed on a notecard
[13:22] Stolvano Barbosa: us? intelligent?
[13:23] Bryte Jewell: /pardon me
[13:23] Teofila Matova: I'm sending out transcripts to the group.
[13:23] Marilena Basevi: hold on....I'm looking for the reference now
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[13:24] Marilena Basevi: She was 95 and a 34B.
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Marilena Basevi: and never with a tape measure, died Thursday at
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[13:25] Marilena Basevi: I will tell you t he beginning of one of the strangest obits I found researching the book
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Marilena Basevi: Jeanette Schmid, the professional whistler who
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[13:26] Marilena Basevi: performed with Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich;
[13:26] Marilena Basevi: she had been born a man and had fought in Hitler's Wehrmacht
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Marilena Basevi: before undergoing a sex change in a
[13:27] Novalli Worbridge: now that's a life
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Marilena Basevi: That appeared in the Daily Telegraph in
[13:27] Daisyblue Hefferman: and all she did with her new self was whistle?
[13:27] Marilena Basevi: what's so marvelous to me is the creativity of people's lives
[13:28] Marilena Basevi: the concision with which it is conveyed
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[13:28] Kitty Otoole: /hearing you on that point!
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[13:28] Marilena Basevi: you could get the impression that there are about five regular story lines....
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[13:29] Marilena Basevi: and leading much more complicated and interesting lives, series of lives, really....
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[13:29] Marilena Basevi: the woman who found the library for prostitutes....
[13:29] Novalli Worbridge: do you think an environment like this adds to or takes away from that exoticness?
[13:29] Marilena Basevi: the man who used to make buildings in the shape of picnic baskets
[13:29] Novalli Worbridge: lol
[13:29] Stolvano Barbosa: prostitutes like to read too
[13:30] Marilena Basevi: an environment like second life?
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[13:30] Marilena Basevi: oh, that adds an element of strangeness to everything, too
[13:30] Marilena Basevi: the collection was focused on prostitution
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[13:31] Kitty Otoole: /wow!
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[13:31] Marilena Basevi: the lag, so to speak, between what we're experiencing in the real world,
[13:31] Maxito Ricardo: I guess your obit is part of presence management
[13:31] Marilena Basevi: and when we read about it, behind the scenes and in depth on the obituary page,
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[13:31] Marilena Basevi: is about 30 years....
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[13:32] Marilena Basevi: speaking of lag....
[13:33] Daisyblue Hefferman: in our area, regular obits are mainly written by the families and funeral directors.
[13:33] Marilena Basevi: I had been reading the early obits of the pioneers of automation for libraries...
[13:33] Marilena Basevi: taht's what drew me to the subject....
[13:33] Maxito Ricardo: So, the average lag time between when the average person "flourishes" and when he/she dies is about 30 years?
[13:33] Marilena Basevi: and what wonderful pioneers -- in virtual reality and other arenas -- I'm meeting now
[13:33] Marilena Basevi: it's a rule of thumb --- a generation and a half.
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[13:34] Marilena Basevi: believe it or not, there are still a few soldiers from WWI still alive....
[13:34] Marilena Basevi: the last French soldier from the Great War just died, and the last German soldier....
[13:34] Marilena Basevi: there are still, I believe, three Americans
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[13:34] Maxito Ricardo: yes
[13:34] Stolvano Barbosa: i hear you
[13:34] Daisyblue Hefferman: I hear you
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Kitty Otoole: /we still have a few
[13:34] Gareth Otsuka: broken
[13:35] Amalia Broome: I can hear you a bit
[13:35] Kitty Otoole: /bless them:)
[13:35] Bryte Jewell: you are vey distorted
[13:35] Daisyblue Hefferman: it's laggy, but I can hear
[13:35] Marilena Basevi: all right, I'll continue to type....
[13:35] Tristan Meriman: quite broken and distorted
[13:35] Marilena Basevi: quite broken and distorted isn't good enough!!
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[13:35] Marilena Basevi: for instance WWII didn't interest me very much -- but then I began to read the obits of soldiers
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Marilena Basevi: the
[13:36] Marilena Basevi: they actually recreate the battles.....
[13:36] Marilena Basevi: it's like reading the most thrilling literature....
[13:36] Hollyjean Allen: wow
[13:36] Marilena Basevi: harrowing, or full of humor, but real....authentic!
[13:37] Kitty Otoole: Yes, they wrote fantastic copy in those days..
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[13:37] Marilena Basevi: if I wrote fiction....I would be stealing from the obits!
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[13:37] Maxito Ricardo: Have you studied the long-term trends and/or national traits of published obits?
[13:37] Marilena Basevi: the journalists are interviewing the survivors, going to the written record, checking, and recreating the battles
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[13:37] Marilena Basevi: yes, that is what my book is about -- it's not scholarly
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[13:38] Novalli Worbridge: do you think that an obituary is the way a person would like to be remembered?
[13:38] Marilena Basevi: but indeed, there are great differences, even from newspaper to newspaper
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Marilena Basevi: in the
[13:38] Maxito Ricardo: Do some people write their own obits and then try to force that obit as the "official" obit?
[13:38] Marilena Basevi: no, if the person left a self-written obituary, then that is how they like to be remembered
[13:39] Marilena Basevi: and yes, many people do that....
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[13:39] Marilena Basevi: and many places, small town papers, for instance, are very concerned to be reverent toward the dead and write for the family
[13:39] Marilena Basevi: but that is not the trend.
[13:39] Daisyblue Hefferman: tv news orgs, for instance have them written in anticipation often. lol to whip out when needed
[13:39] Marilena Basevi: the trend is, we are going to hear every horriblething Heath Ledger ingested
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[13:39] Maxito Ricardo: There's an economy of obits, too, correct? Some newspapers make someone pay for a long obit?
[13:39] Marilena Basevi: warts and all
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[13:40] Kitty Otoole: /yes, I heard one news station already has Britney Spears!
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[13:40] Marilena Basevi: yes, they make people pay for thedeath notices
[13:40] Maxito Ricardo: lol
[13:40] Maxito Ricardo: Maybe there's a futures market in obits
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[13:40] Daisyblue Hefferman: steady income in that. lol
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[13:40] Novalli Worbridge: lol, which bity
[13:40] Kitty Otoole: /oh wow!
[13:41] Daisyblue Hefferman: she must have lots weight then
[13:41] Daisyblue Hefferman: lost
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: It makes sense, you don't want to get caught at the last minute -- on deadline, as it were,
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: I have some funny stories in my book about writing obits in advance.
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: and have to sum up an era in a short amount of time
[13:41] Kitty Otoole: /they must make for awful embarrassments if they are mistakenly published:(
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: but it does lead to problems.....
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: well, yes, there's that....
[13:41] Stolvano Barbosa: fot to have Elizabeth Taylor in your drawer
[13:41] Maxito Ricardo: Do writers write obits for well-known people who are likely to die soon, then, when the person dies, try to sell their pre-fab obit to news sources?
[13:41] Stolvano Barbosa: got
[13:41] Marilena Basevi: and then there's the problem of sitting on an obit for 60 years, as they did for the queen mum
[13:42] Amalia Broome: All news shows have predone obits on famous people..so they can get it on the air quickly..
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Marilena Basevi: I wrote one of Katharine Hepburn for
[13:42] Marilena Basevi: she outlived the magazine....
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[13:42] Hollyjean Allen: funny
[13:42] Amalia Broome: that's life!
[13:42] Marilena Basevi: and no one wanted to buy my obit, because....they already had one!
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[13:43] Marilena Basevi: she'd been near death so many times....
[13:43] Kitty Otoole: /it must be so hard to know what to include and leave out..
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Marilena Basevi: but
[13:43] Marilena Basevi: the most challenging thing is trying to figure out what to leave out....
[13:43] Marilena Basevi: the hardest obit I ever wrote was for Marlon Brano
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[13:43] Kitty Otoole: /that must have been immensley satisfying
[13:44] Daisyblue Hefferman: wow some life he had
[13:44] Marilena Basevi: everything you could think to say about him, the opposite was also true...
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[13:44] Marilena Basevi: a tremendously sensitive person
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[13:44] Marilena Basevi: a lover
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[13:44] Marilena Basevi: a great talent
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[13:44] Marilena Basevi: did you read the obit for Christian Brando?
[13:44] Marilena Basevi: he just died....
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[13:45] Marilena Basevi: One of the saddest (to me) stories in my book is about a theme
[13:45] Kitty Otoole: I haven't but what a tragic family...
[13:45] Amalia Broome: yes..a sad life
[13:45] Marilena Basevi: talk about lag....the people who were there when Bobby Kennedy was shot....
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[13:45] Marilena Basevi: there were some strange stories
[13:45] Marilena Basevi: they tended to be wonderfully successful people, idealists,
[13:45] Marilena Basevi: and after his death, they lost it --
[13:46] Marilena Basevi: rosemary Clooney, a great sucess, ended up in a mental institution for a time....
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[13:46] Kitty Otoole: /did she?
[13:46] Stolvano Barbosa: what about people dying in trios? True?
[13:46] Kitty Otoole: /omg I had no idea that happened to Rosemary Clooney
[13:46] Marilena Basevi: yes, many people think death happens in threes....
[13:47] Marilena Basevi: I find pairs
[13:47] Daisyblue Hefferman: my poor father only got 6 months of peace before my mother joined him
[13:47] Marilena Basevi: I love to see the patterns on the obit page....
[13:47] Marilena Basevi: that in face is how I open the book, with my collection of coincidences
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[13:47] Marilena Basevi: vitamin C and vitamin K
[13:48] Marilena Basevi: I think that is a story many people experience and read -- the long-married pairs who leave more or less together
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[13:48] Marilena Basevi: my great grandmother died three weeks before my great grandfather....
[13:48] Novalli Worbridge: my grandparents died withing a month
[13:48] Stolvano Barbosa: we should wrap up in a minute or two
[13:48] Novalli Worbridge: i think it was the lack of opposition that did em
[13:48] Stolvano Barbosa: other questions from folks?
[13:48] Marilena Basevi: any last minute questions?
[13:49] Faber Loring: Vonnegut had a term for couples like that -- "duprass"
[13:49] Novalli Worbridge: a karass of 2
[13:49] Marilena Basevi: I am so grateful to the fine people who put on this festival....what a marvelous idea
[13:49] Bryte Jewell: did you tell us your absolute favorite?
[13:49] Marilena Basevi: duprass? wow
[13:49] Marilena Basevi: I have a new favorite everyday!
[13:49] Kitty Otoole: I wish I had been here for teh beginning-this is fascinating stuff
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[13:49] Stolvano Barbosa: favorite to write yourself?
[13:49] Marilena Basevi: but the recent obits of Hugh Massingberd, often called the father of the modern obituary,
[13:49] Marilena Basevi: were marvelous....
[13:50] Novalli Worbridge: very modern, obituaries of obituaries
[13:50] Marilena Basevi: here's a quote from his obit:
[13:50] Marilena Basevi: "He knew instinctively that it is our peculiarities -- our failings, our embarrassments --
[13:50] Marilena Basevi: that make us who we are. This view of mankind as fallen,
[13:50] Marilena Basevi: but redeemed through eccentricity,
[13:51] Marilena Basevi: ran like a golden thread through all his obituaries....
[13:51] Marilena Basevi: you can read excerpts from two of my obituaries on my website
[13:51] Marilena Basevi: www.marilynjohnson.net
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[13:51] Marilena Basevi: and of course, you can read the marvelous work of the obituarists for the NYTIMes,
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[13:52] Maxito Ricardo: Does the writing and study of obits have a name? Obitology?
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[13:52] Marilena Basevi: etc etc every day....
[13:52] Kitty Otoole: gotta have an ology! :)
[13:52] Stolvano Barbosa: Read the BOOK too!
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[13:52] Elan Neruda: is strange workings today
[13:52] Marilena Basevi: we are called obituarists.....though some prefer journalists!
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[13:52] Kit Jimenez: shawna -- you and angie have great taste!
[13:52] Elan Neruda: please do
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[13:52] Kit Jimenez: an introduction would be good. i need to go plea bargain with my computer for a sec.
[13:53] Shawna Montgomery: thank you Ma'am
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[13:53] Elan Neruda: I need to get opal workign I think
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[13:53] Hollyjean Allen: Its been wonderful!
[13:53] Amalia Broome: thank you so much!
[13:53] Amalia Broome: it was really interesting
[13:53] Marilena Basevi: please feel free to ahve a conversation with me ANYTIME about obits or my work with librarians
[13:53] Judi Newall: You don't have tip jars do you? The library has created on if you'd like it put out?
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[13:53] Stolvano Barbosa: big had for Marilena!
[13:53] Stolvano Barbosa: hand
[13:53] Marilena Basevi: Thank you Stolvano! Thank you Theofila!
[13:53] Kitty Otoole: Yes thank you Marilyn!
[13:53] Deckard Jameson: thank you ... enjoyed it!
[13:53] Bryte Jewell: thank you!
[13:53] Marilena Basevi: Abbey....Marimar....all of you!
[13:53] Liatris Tidewater: /clap
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[13:53] Stolvano Barbosa: woot
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[13:54] Stolvano Barbosa: blushes
[13:54] Teofila Matova: Thank you, Marilena!
[13:54] Stolvano Barbosa: ok
[13:54] Marilena Basevi: oh Hollyjean saved me also!
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[13:54] Teofila Matova: You are so kind to present for us!
[13:54] Marilena Basevi: thank you Hollyjean....
[13:54] Stolvano Barbosa: need to let next speaker set up
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[13:54] Kit Jimenez: judi can you give me the url for the right opal room?
[13:54] Elan Neruda: are we in right place?
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[13:55] Hollyjean Allen: I saved her! Single handedly! LOL
[13:55] Judi Newall: That will take you into the OPAL room Tom Peters is there
[13:55] Kit Jimenez: thanks
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[13:56] Maxito Ricardo: I wish I were the "real " Tom Peters
[13:56] Franja Russell: Is this where Steven Miller and Sharon Lee are speaking today?
[13:56] Novalli Worbridge: hello, i picked up your book on a whim last week
[13:56] Marilena Basevi: thank you so much!
[13:56] Novalli Worbridge: read it on the bus home, it was good
[13:56] Marilena Basevi: thank you!
[13:56] Marilena Basevi: I wish I could autograph it! ha ha
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[13:57] Novalli Worbridge: lol
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[13:57] Marimar Berchot: you are
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[13:57] Kit Jimenez: ok. it's not telling me service unavailable this time. whew :)
[13:57] Franja Russell: Thank you.
[13:57] Novalli Worbridge: but co-incidences do seem to happen
[13:57] Novalli Worbridge: i've been to a few book talks, but never a virtual one - there's a lot more calling out
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[13:58] Kit Jimenez: elan
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[13:58] Marilena Basevi: yes, there is....I think I might have missed a few comments, I was working so hard to type....
[13:58] Novalli Worbridge: yeah, it's one of those books that cheer you up that get funny looks in public
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[13:58] Marilena Basevi: isn't that half the fun?
[13:58] Novalli Worbridge: except my friend's mum who came round today and said it was a book about me
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[13:59] Novalli Worbridge: i don't think she likes me
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[13:59] Novalli Worbridge: yeah - i got this book called 'curious pleasures' is another good one to leave around
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[13:59] Marilena Basevi: ha ha....thank you for coming, Novalli --
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[13:59] Novalli Worbridge: yeah - dead beat see -
[13:59] Novalli Worbridge: cheers adios
[13:59] Marilena Basevi: fareewell!
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[14:01] Novalli Worbridge: it was a shock to have a writer i have heard of on the stage
[14:01] Hollyjean Allen: cool isn't it!
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[14:01] Hollyjean Allen: I just give moral support
[14:02] Novalli Worbridge: oh, well everyone needs support with their morals.
[14:02] Kitty Otoole: I love the books that when you pick em up you get funny looks
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[14:02] Kitty Otoole: In fact..it's worth aiming for em if you ask me, lol
[14:02] Novalli Worbridge: reminds me of student life, festivals, even virtual type ones
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[14:03] Teofila Matova: I believe it's time for Judi to now introduce our next speakers....... so I will hand the time over to Judi. :-)
[14:04] Kit Jimenez: Judi, I have a glitch -- opal is giving me an error message that even baffles
[14:04] Kit Jimenez: tom
[14:04] Kit Jimenez: Steve may have to carry on alone
[14:04] Teofila Matova: Several of us seem to need to relog (including myself)
[14:04] Judi Newall: Partly it may be that the sim is so full here
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[14:05] Judi Newall: I don't see a white dot for SL voice for you eitehr Kit
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[14:07] Kit Jimenez: break a leg
[14:07] Kit Jimenez: lol
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[14:12] Judi Newall: I think it's off again Elan
[14:12] Maxito Ricardo: Your voice can be heard in OPAL
[14:12] Maxito Ricardo: But not in SL, I think
[14:13] Maxito Ricardo: I don't see any green waves over your head
[14:13] Tornad Oh: The blue box is just giving me a teleport card to the ref desk
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[14:22] Maxito Ricardo: I can hear Kit
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[14:44] Teofila Matova: Are there any questions from the audience?
[14:44] Teofila Matova: I realize audio has not been the best -- love IT! -- however, for those who had sound, any questions?
[14:44] Judi Newall: Have you had any interest from otehr publishers due to the response you have had?
[14:44] Tristan Meriman: It seems that you have had it a bit tough in many ways, What keeps you motivated?
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[14:48] Kit Jimenez: They're updating their blogs.
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[14:50] Judi Newall: Do you see this as being a feature of your work from now on, or will you take a break from this format?
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[14:52] Kit Jimenez: ty!
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[14:52] Teofila Matova: Thank you Elan & Kit!
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[14:53] Shawna Montgomery: thank you!
[14:53] Tristan Meriman: /m claps in appreciation
[14:53] Kit Jimenez: thank you!!
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[14:54] Shawna Montgomery: lol
[14:54] Kit Jimenez: Thanks a lot, guys
[14:54] Teofila Matova: We'll be setting up now.
[14:54] Judi Newall: Maybe if we move to the stall folks may follow?
[14:54] Kit Jimenez: head bumps, sigh
[14:54] Kit Jimenez: that might work
[14:54] Teofila Matova: I would appreciate assistance from the audience in getting feedback with sound. OK?
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[14:55] Teofila Matova: Tristan, did you receive the tip jar?
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[14:56] Teofila Matova: I hear you in SL, do others?
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[14:56] Lois Allen: I can hear you Tristan
[14:56] Maxito Ricardo: yes, you sound just right
[14:57] Teofila Matova: you are good
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[14:57] Teofila Matova: a rich artist!
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[14:57] Franja Russell: I'm not hearing ANY speakers right now. When Sharon and Steve were speaking, I heard only a few partial sentences.
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[14:57] Teofila Matova: And I'm no Shakesperean groupie!
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[14:57] Franja Russell: Now I'm hearing Tristan...at least I heard one sentence.
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[14:58] Teofila Matova: Franja, what is your problem with sound?
[14:58] Teofila Matova: Maxito, could you help Franja?
[14:58] Maxito Ricardo: Maybe Franja should try the OPAL route.
[14:58] Teofila Matova: Welcome everyon!
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[14:58] Teofila Matova: Please have a seat
[14:58] Teofila Matova: lol
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[14:59] Lois Allen: giggle
[14:59] Teofila Matova: yes, we'll let folks settle in
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[15:01] Teofila Matova: I'm delighted to have him today.
[15:01] Teofila Matova: Yes, we are nearing a close to a fabulous, full-day festival.
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[15:01] Teofila Matova: Please, welcome Mr. Tristan Meriman. :-)
[15:01] Marimar Berchot: Welcome Tristan
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[15:42] Karl Nostram: wow, amazing Tristan
[15:42] Lois Allen shouts: MORE
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[15:42] Teofila Matova: yae!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[15:42] Franja Russell: We definitely did enjoy your reading, Tristan.
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[15:42] Tamraen Dryke: rottne fruit?! aha never Tritan! that was amazing
[15:42] Teofila Matova: You are wonderful!
[15:42] Teofila Matova: lol
[15:42] Mosseveno Tenk: i'd take a picture but you look like ruth
[15:42] Teofila Matova: may I smear fruit on you?
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[15:43] Leeorie Alter: clap clap!!
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[15:43] Teofila Matova: You were fabulous and it was wonderful.
[15:43] Maxito Ricardo: fantastic
[15:43] Tamraen Dryke: Can you continue reading on Lyonesse?
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[15:43] Mosseveno Tenk: lol
[15:43] Lois Allen: when do we hear the rest of it?
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[15:43] Teofila Matova: Very sensual, very tender
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[15:44] Mosseveno Tenk: real estate prces are goign to soar on lyonesse
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[15:44] Tamraen Dryke: I'll be happy to listen if you do
[15:44] Teofila Matova: Tristan, you are so great!
[15:44] Teofila Matova: I'm still a bit numb from the reading.
[15:44] Tamraen Dryke: hahaahhahahaha
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[15:45] Maxito Ricardo: My avatar has a mind of his own
[15:45] Karl Nostram: you done real good mate
[15:45] Tamraen Dryke: you're still the coolest av I know
[15:45] Leeorie Alter: maxito are you the go to guy for audio problems
[15:45] Tamraen Dryke: stading ovation for that! lol
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[15:45] Teofila Matova: Tristan, this was remarkable.
[15:46] Teofila Matova: This day has been remarkable.
[15:46] Teofila Matova: No, don't vacate
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[15:46] Teofila Matova: please
[15:46] Maxito Ricardo: I'm the audio guy for OPAL, but don't know more than the average bear concerning audio in SL
[15:46] Tamraen Dryke: Thanks for having Tristan ont eh stage Teofila!
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[15:46] Teofila Matova: there is no other act
[15:46] Leeorie Alter: o....
[15:46] Teofila Matova: You are beautiful!
[15:46] Leeorie Alter: I haven't been able to get audio...
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[15:46] Mosseveno Tenk: yes
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[15:46] Mosseveno Tenk: bugger
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[15:46] Teofila Matova: one moment
[15:46] Leeorie Alter: I signed in to opal a couple years ago....
[15:46] Lois Allen: tap dance can be arranged
[15:46] Tamraen Dryke: do that cool floating cross blue smke thing
[15:46] Leeorie Alter: not sure what password I used then...
[15:46] Maxito Ricardo: Leeorie, no audio here in SL
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[15:47] Maxito Ricardo: in OPAL, any username should work, and just leave the password field blank
[15:47] Leeorie Alter: ok
[15:47] Teofila Matova: Would you be so kind to have this dance with me, Tristan?
[15:47] Leeorie Alter: I thought I was in opal, ....
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[15:47] Teofila Matova: You are officially our last speaker.
[15:47] Leeorie Alter: thanks!
[15:48] Teofila Matova: this dance!
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[15:48] Lois Allen: only in full armour lol
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[15:48] Tamraen Dryke: /is dying laughing
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Maxito Ricardo: Is it Sunday morning in
[15:48] Teofila Matova: yae!
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Teofila Matova: Good morning
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[15:49] Teofila Matova: I thank you for being with us, Tristan, and giving us a fabulous reading!!!!
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[15:49] Tristan Meriman: Thank or inviting e
[15:49] Tristan Meriman: me
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[15:49] Mosseveno Tenk: hmm, he still ooks like ruth... so i'm getting a completely different story here
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