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Originally Posted by Zeno
Did he give you a bottle of wine?
A few months later, they held a conference in honour of Claude Berge, the recently deceased founder of their group. Berge was a member of the French upper class, who apparently would play the game of Hex all day, before knocking out some massively influential paper in the evening. The free Conference Dinner was held at
La Coupole, one of the grand old cafes of Montparnasse, where Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald would spend their last centimes on oysters, while bickering about
Art Nouveau. Owing to a slightly nervous disposition, I was always wary of abusing their hospitality, and so did not attend. Hey, Charlie, where were you... ?