That's The Attraction Of The Conference Circuit:

Paraphrase, In The Sense Of Summary, Is As Indispensable To The Novel-critic As Close Analysis Is To The Critic Of Lyric Poetry. The Natural Deduction Is That Novels Are Paraphrasable Whereas Poems Are Not. But This Is A False Deduction Because Close Analysis Is Itself A Disguised Form Of Paraphrase.

Information Is The Religion Of The Modern World.

Walt Whitman, He Who Laid End To End Words Never Seen In Each Other's Company Before Outside Of A Dictionary.

To Read Is To Surrender Oneself To An Endless Displacement Of Curiosity And Desire From One Sentence To Another

That's The Attraction Of The Conference Circuit: It's A Way Of Converting Work Into Play, Combining Professionalism With Tourism, And All At Someone Else's Expense. Write A Paper And See The World! I'm Jane Austen - Fly Me!