Comments on: My Idea Of the Perfect Power Couple http://www.peacebang.com/2005/08/16/my-idea-of-the-perfect-power-couple/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:11:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: PeaceBang http://www.peacebang.com/2005/08/16/my-idea-of-the-perfect-power-couple/#comment-778 PeaceBang Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:53:55 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/08/16/my-idea-of-the-perfect-power-couple/#comment-778 I talked with Elaine Pagels at a reception once, and she was so nice I actually didn't feel like an enormous tongue-tied doofus. That also happened when I met Mary Oliver, who had just given a reading at Trinity Church in Copley Square and when the teeming throngs crammed into the vestibule for lemonade and "meet the author" she just kind of melted into a chair in the corner and everyone totally ignored her.<br/>I told her I'd be her bodyguard and sat quietly next to her for about a half an hour, just people watching and talking a little bit.<br/>It's a very happy memory. I talked with Elaine Pagels at a reception once, and she was so nice I actually didn’t feel like an enormous tongue-tied doofus. That also happened when I met Mary Oliver, who had just given a reading at Trinity Church in Copley Square and when the teeming throngs crammed into the vestibule for lemonade and “meet the author” she just kind of melted into a chair in the corner and everyone totally ignored her.
I told her I’d be her bodyguard and sat quietly next to her for about a half an hour, just people watching and talking a little bit.
It’s a very happy memory.

]]> By: Chalicechick http://www.peacebang.com/2005/08/16/my-idea-of-the-perfect-power-couple/#comment-777 Chalicechick Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:23:49 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/08/16/my-idea-of-the-perfect-power-couple/#comment-777 If Elaine Pagels exchanged some emails with me and eventually sent me a book, I'm sure these folks would have lunch with you some time.<br/><br/>Oh to be a fly on the wall...<br/><br/>CC If Elaine Pagels exchanged some emails with me and eventually sent me a book, I’m sure these folks would have lunch with you some time.

Oh to be a fly on the wall…

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