Eric Maskin came for a talk. He got the N prize for economics this year.
People who came for the talk were mostly old professors. The hall was not full, as I had expected. He spoke for fifteen minutes. Then it was open for questions. People asked, he tried to reply ...questions were such. The battery of the mike went off, the projector threw a tilted projection. People wore blank looks and kept dripping in to the hall during the lecture ... oof
