Few people know that the Reeducation I actually undertook was not my first attempt. My first, short-lived attempt took place in Brazil. I had long planned to seek Reeducation and where I was living, everyone I knew was in Reeducation. If you had dollars and a good black market money changer, Reeducation with a Famous … More Brazilian Reeducation
This is one of the longest and most unwieldy anti-Reeducation posts I wrote in July. If you are tired of the topic I recommend my favorite recent post, New Orleans Noir. Also, nobody has commented on Puden, partly because it is strange and partly because it is in Danish. It is, however, there to be … More The Book on Reeducation
A friend of mine who is a department chair is irritated at one of her assistant professors because he teaches extra courses, sometimes at night and sometimes in summer. This is to finance his professional travel and equipment, which are not provided by the university, and which cannot be financed through grants because granting agencies … More American Illusions
From Andy Blunden’s article: Kant offers a several alternative formulations of [the] categorical imperative. In the Science of Right, [he] draws on a maxim of Roman law to introduce a crucial additional nuance to [it]: Honeste vive [“live rightly”]: juridical rectitude, or honour, consists in maintaining one’s own worth as a man in relation to … More Kant on Integrity
[A prose poem after Vallejo and Lorca.] Jeg har en søster, som jeg ikke ser for meget af, og som jeg hellere ikke snakker så meget med. Men hun kom og besøgte mig dengang vores mor døde. Hun har set her i huset den røde pude, som ligger der på sofaen. –Den er smuk, elegant, … More Puden
Sometimes I go to New Orleans but avoid seeing my friends who work at Tulane University. This can be embarrassing if I run into them on the street and they say, but why did you not call me, why are you not staying with me, because the truthful answer would be the uncharitable and incomprehensible … More New Orleans Noir
This is “We Spent the Fourth of July in Bed.” Check it out, it is great. I learned about Suheir Hammad from Ridwan. Axé.
Elena Garro returned as a writer after being silenced and then resisting this imposition through the deployment of an active silence, over a period of thirteen years. That is inspiring. However, Rip van Winkle woke up after sleeping for twelve years, and I have been comparing my sleep of Reeducation to his. This blog points … More On Odysseus and the Gods
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