Saw the sword play from the shady bench against the wall of the courtyard - a lot less romantic and much more brutal than I expected, but fascinating nonetheless.

We've never met, but I grew up in New York, went to Barnard, love your books, used to organize my Sunday afternoons around Sound and Spirit - if I still lived in New York I would definitely have come to one of your readings by now, and then we surely would have met. If I see someone who looks like you, I will take the risk and say hello.