This book on Bahian poet Jacinta Passos really is worth reading. I should discuss Passos and the book in greater detail at some point, but for now I will say only that Passos has a marvelous concept, “established disorder,” which refers in effect to authoritarian situations.
A Peruvian professor of history has written a book on authoritarianism. He says disorder is one of the tools authoritarian social structures use to hold power. It impinges upon the time and tranquility of those who are not members of the ruling classes.
I would say more but the Three Kings will be here at any moment and I must go out and look for the band – which would fit very well in New Orleans.
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I do not write all my posts in real time. This was one of those written ahead. I did not actually go and look for the band, I spent the evening in conversation with an inspiring friend. She said, among other things:
Trust your intuitive processes and work from the idea that you have already arrived. You have already arrived and it is your process. You must simply keep working ahead according to your lights, remembering that what you are ultimately doing is more important than whatever any committee or supervisor of any kind may say about the project in its current state.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 