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every year i invited paul to come talk to the students in a summer program i co-facilitated at bryn mawr. and every year he came--always on the first friday morning of the program when the students were just getting comfortable with each other and settled with what we were doing. and instead of speaking in some pre-decided way, paul would first ask to hear a little about them and what they were doing here. i don't know just what he picked up on, but he'd go on to pose a few provocative questions--different each year and keyed to the particular group--and pretty soon he'd have all of us unsettled in that very focused way that's about puzzling out new ideas. and he'd go on and do that with us, letting our questions emerge and take and shift shape...until we'd leave for lunch, together in a new way.