Yes, but you can only measure out your life in coffee spoons. Cheers, Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Deborah Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deborah.willis@ucr.edu">deborah.willis@ucr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Three cheers for Carole, and many thanks! But I can't resist putting in a plug for<br>
tea as well as coffee:<br>
<br>
I received a small brick of tea,<br>
And sipping it, felt cool; I can do with the wind as I will.<br>
Why should I need paradise?<br>
My whole body is floating among white clouds.<br>
--Gido Shushin (14th century)<br>
<br>
Or, for the real fanatics, a poem called "Tea-Drinking":<br>
<br>
The first cup moistens my lips and throat.<br>
The second cup breaks my loneliness.<br>
The third cup searches my barren entrails to find some thousand volumes of odd<br>
ideographs.<br>
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration: all the wrongs of life pass out<br>
through my pores.<br>
At the fifth cup, I am purified;<br>
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.<br>
The seventh cup -- I feel the breath of the cool wind in my sleeves.<br>
Where is Mount Penglai? I shall ride the gentle breeze to the mountain top of<br>
the eternal ones.<br>
--Lu Tong (Tang Dynasty)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Deborah Willis<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Dept. of English<br>
University of California<br>
Riverside, CA 92521<br>
<br>
email: <a href="mailto:dwill@ucr.edu">dwill@ucr.edu</a><br>
office phone: 951-827-1939<br>
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---- Original message ----<br>
>Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:52:14 -0700<br>
>From: <a href="mailto:steven.axelrod@gmail.com">steven.axelrod@gmail.com</a> (on behalf of Steven Axelrod<br>
<<a href="mailto:steven.axelrod@ucr.edu">steven.axelrod@ucr.edu</a>>)<br>
>Subject: Re: Coffee-house Update<br>
>To: Carole Fabricant <<a href="mailto:cf7516@gmail.com">cf7516@gmail.com</a>><br>
>Cc: <a href="mailto:adriana.craciun@ucr.edu">adriana.craciun@ucr.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:Andrea.Denny-Brown@ucr.edu">Andrea.Denny-Brown@ucr.edu</a>,<br>
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<a href="mailto:kathleen.carter@ucr.edu">kathleen.carter@ucr.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu">gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu</a><br>
><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Congrats, Carole.<br>
> <br>
> We'll think of you everytime we have a cup of<br>
> something there. It will indeed by a campus<br>
> "amenity," one of my favorite words and concepts.<br>
> <br>
> Too bad there won't be hasty pudding to go with the<br>
> java:<br>
> <br>
> I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,<br>
> My morning incense, and my evening meal--<br>
> The sweets of Hasty Pudding. Come, dear bowl,<br>
> Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.<br>
> The milk beside thee, smoking from the kine,<br>
> Its substance mingled, married in with thine,<br>
> Shall cool and temper thy superior heat,<br>
> And save the pains of blowing while I eat.<br>
> <br>
> --Joel Barlow, "The Hasty Pudding"<br>
> <br>
> Clearly, hasty pudding should be the next big thing.<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> <br>
> Steve<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Carole Fabricant<br>
> <<a href="mailto:cf7516@gmail.com">cf7516@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi folks,<br>
> <br>
> I've been meaning to send an email out for the<br>
> past several weeks but have been overwhelmed with<br>
> other stuff. I still am but did want to take out<br>
> a moment to let you know that (tantara) there WILL<br>
> be a coffee-house on campus starting in the fall<br>
> quarter. It will be a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf<br>
> outlet. Over the past weeks I've been in phone<br>
> contact with Cheryl Garner, the new Director of<br>
> Dining Services, and she assures me that it's<br>
> slated to open no later than the end of September<br>
> (though she's hoping for an opening earlier,<br>
> around Sept. 10). Mind you, my last conversation<br>
> with her predated the latest round of financial<br>
> threats by our Great Governator (especially aimed<br>
> at matters related to education) following the<br>
> defeat of his budgetary proposals. But it sounds<br>
> like the coffee-house is pretty much a done deal<br>
> and that they'll be working on it all summer.<br>
> <br>
> The good news is that it's been relocated to a<br>
> much better (i.e., larger) venue (a building that<br>
> stands by itself in the Hub) than the one<br>
> originally planned (the cramped space that was<br>
> once used as the Printing and Repro Office), and<br>
> that it will remain open until late into the<br>
> evening. I spoke to Ms. Garner about the need<br>
> for a proper setting and ambience (which includes<br>
> the right kind of seating, lighting, and music). <br>
> She told me there will be some comfortable<br>
> (couch-like) seating and that the idea is to<br>
> have two separate 'environments', each with<br>
> different features -- one for undergraduates<br>
> (wanting a place to study, check out YouTube and<br>
> play with their high-tech gadgets, etc.) and the<br>
> other for us (ahem) older folks, interested in a<br>
> place to stretch out and indulge our caffeine<br>
> habit while quietly reading a<br>
> book or conversing with friends and<br>
> colleagues. In theory that sounds pretty good<br>
> -- but we're all well aware of the often yawning<br>
> gap between theory and practice so I remain more<br>
> than a little skeptical about how all this will<br>
> work out. I guess we'll just have to wait and<br>
> see. <br>
> <br>
> I made a few other suggestions -- about the need<br>
> for EDIBLE pastries and sandwiches, for an oven to<br>
> heat stuff up in, and for the sale of the New<br>
> York Times on a daily basis (having to read a rag<br>
> sheet like the Riverside Enterprise or, these<br>
> days, even the LA Times doesn't exactly enhance<br>
> one's coffee-house experience). I also stressed<br>
> the need for real as well as paper cups<br>
> (definitely more civilized -- and even makes the<br>
> coffee taste better). If you have any additional<br>
> suggestions or ideas, do let me know and I'll pass<br>
> them along to Garner. <br>
> <br>
> Not that she'll necessary be responsive to them --<br>
> this whole venture is being run by corporate and<br>
> marketing types for whom a coffee-house is simply<br>
> a source of profit (or a place to be closed if<br>
> unprofitable) and not, as I and I hope all of you<br>
> view it, an essential campus 'institution'<br>
> that functions as a complement and extension of<br>
> the classroom and lecture hall. So I'm really<br>
> hoping all of you will make a point of patronizing<br>
> the coffee-house once it opens, even if you don't<br>
> drink coffee (it will of course also offer tea and<br>
> other beverages), and that you spread the word to<br>
> friends and acquaintances in other departments. <br>
> It's absolutely mindboggling that a campus of<br>
> 17,000 students has gone this long without a<br>
> coffee-house (and without much of anything else,<br>
> as far as I can tell -- no pub, no faculty club,<br>
> the list is endless), and we should do what we can<br>
> to support its existence once it does open.<br>
> <br>
> Just a quick postscript here: Because the<br>
> coffee-house is part of a corporate chain there's<br>
> unfortunately no possibility of naming it after<br>
> Lindon, as I'd suggested in my last email. What<br>
> planet was I on when I was envisioning<br>
> a coffee-house that would be a unique and<br>
> individual place, a kind of funky venue that<br>
> would allow for personal touches like that?! <br>
> I'm hoping (and assuming) that during the past<br>
> weeks of my sabbatical, members of the department<br>
> have come up with other ways of paying tribute to<br>
> Lindon's memory.<br>
> <br>
> A parting thought: "Ah, how sweet the coffee<br>
> tastes,/More delicious than a thousand<br>
> kisses,/Mellower than muscatel wine./Coffee,<br>
> coffee I must have,/And if someone wishes to give<br>
> me pleasure,/Ah, then pour me out some coffee!" <br>
> (J.S. Bach, "The Coffee Cantata")<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Carole<br>
> <br>
> <br>
<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Steven Gould Axelrod<br>President, The Robert Lowell Society<br>Co-editor, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vols. 1-3<br>Professor of English<br>University of California<br>
Riverside, CA 92521<br>