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> On Dec 21, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the late 1960s, in Boston, I was one of two panelists at an anti-war > event. Chomsky was the other. He focused on what he intended to say as if > my remarks had happened somewhere else. Not rude in the least, just > intensely focused on delivering what he was saying. He was great on the > Vietnam stuff, as on most everything else. > > Gene > > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Chomsky came to Chico years ago. He gave 3 1.5 hour lectures without a >> break. One was on international politics; one on the media. I don't >> remember the other one, but they were all exceedingly impressive. We >> decided on the subjects shortly before his presentation. Nonetheless, in >> his lectures, he would say something like "on July 16 1986, the NY Times >> wrote: "... he filled in the blanks. Someone who walked in to the lectures >> would be sure that he spent many days preparing them. As we walked across >> the campus, students would greet him and give him their name. Chomsky would >> respond, with something like "Your last message about Palestine ..." I >> asked him how many hours per day he corresponds with students from Chico. >> He said, an hour or two for correspondence. We went to a dinner with a few >> people, then a reception that lasted till midnight. I picked him up the >> next day at 8:00 AM. He then began to tell me about what he had been >> reading the night before. Noam Chomsky is AMAZING. >> >> >> Michael Perelman >> Economics Department >> California State University >> Mperelman at csuchico.edu >> Chico, CA 95929 >> 530-898-5321 >> fax 530-898-5901 >> www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect >> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 6:40 AM >> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition >> <[email protected]>; Progressive Economics >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Pen-l] Fwd: What It's Like to Be Noam Chomsky's Assistant - The >> Chronicle of Higher Education >> >> I could see from his work that his memory was a force of nature, and one day >> I dared to ask him about it. He told me he has what he calls "buffers," or >> little drawers in his brain that he opens to retrieve conversations and >> correspondence from as long as 50 years ago. He told me he thought for a >> long time that everyone had this ability. >> >> http://chronicle.com/article/What-Its-Like-to-Be-Noam/234667 >> >> I got some exposure to this about a decade ago when I was walking along >> 120th Street near B'way during lunch when a cab pulled up and Chomsky >> stepped out on his way to some speaking engagement at Columbia. Since his >> daughter was a Tecnica volunteer, I thought I'd introduce myself. >> Five seconds after my introduction, he began commenting about what his >> daughter and other volunteers had done in Nicaragua more than a decade >> earlier. My jaw dropped. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
