Don't Stay Home and Read Alone!
 
     
"She loves me...she loves me not". Cupid's arrow is not always accurate. We are going to have an ALL-DAY love fest discussing two such cases, Thomas Hardy's short story "On the Western Circuit" and Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac". Join us!!
 
Day/time   Click on this map for detailed directions
Saturday, April 30, 2005
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location
Crooker Hall (2nd floor)
3909 Graustark St.
University of St. Thomas
Houston, TX
PARKING: Free street parking MAY be available, but the University parking deck is just north of our meeting site, at the corner of Graustark and Alabama. The fee is $2.00 for the entire day.

Registration fee
$20.00* through April 23, 2005
$25.00* after April 23, 2005

* includes HOT catered lunch
NOTE: This semi-annual event is the ONLY time we charge a fee for attendance. The fee partly covers our cost for room rental and the catered lunch.

All other Great Books meetings are free and require no registration.
 
Schedule
 
9:30-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:50 Discussion of Thomas Hardy's "On the Western Circuit"
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Showing of "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1950)
3:00- 4:00 Informal discussion of our theme, "Foolhardy Love"
 
The Hardy short story, "On the Western Circuit", can be read online by clicking HERE. If you wish to purchase it, the story is contained in an anthology entitled, "Life's Little Ironies", from the Oxford University Press. It should be widely available. Click here for the Amazon.com listing of the book.
 
Make your reservations by clicking the PayPal link below (to use your credit card) or by sending your name, address, phone number and check to our Treasurer:
Jeff Crow
5723 Sanford Rd.
Houston. TX 77096
capcuervo@hotmail.com
For questions or for more information, send us an email by clicking HERE or call 281-980-0840.


 
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