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! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets." in the context of "David Lodge (1993) quoted in: The Universities We Need: Higher Education After Dearing, Routledge, 13 September 2013, p. 73" to mean that wisdom is timeless.