[Romulus]

Fiction writers: by all means include Louisiana's own Walker Percy (buried at St. Joe's Abbey in Covington), as well as Evelyn Waugh (the greatest prose stylist of the 20 th C., who knew all about "the modern age in arms"), and Flannery O'Connor.

Abstract forthcoming, probably tomorrow. Following your act should be, um, an interesting challenge. Are you looking for entire paper (there won't be one -- not written), fleshed-out outline, or only a coupla graphs?

[Askel5]

Frankly, I think Neocon's got the most difficult presentation of all. I'm therefore relieved that he's written his out completely.

I shall probably do the same with mine since I hate to speak publicly without a character, costume, make-up and lines and intend only to hit a few highlights of my piece by way of introducing your defense of Pius XII and the current assault by the media, the State and revolutionaries within via scandal.

So ... for you guys, feel free to bullet-point your main ideas, flesh out with timelines and such as appropriate but PLEASE do include a bibliography and weblinks on which you've relied. That should do it.