Being at the Salon was a mess, as I was attending a formal dinner with my wife for her association, and had to leave before the main course. And I only finished reading the book in the plane the day before, and my first impression was negative (thankfully, I got word from a common friend that DeVine's a good guy).
But the conversation itself in the Salon went well, and was pretty constructive. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes