The 2010 poverty rate of Peru was 31.3% according to census authorities there. The US Census reports a 19.2 rate for Louisiana in the same year. Alaska is at 7% and Denmark, 13%. These figures may mean less than they appear to do. It is a dark and stormy night, and silent too. After this … More Peru
At my university the work week is traditionally 60 hours. When I got here there were still TIME CLOCKS as relics; now we are not thinking of things in terms of time spent as much. Part of the 60 hours was working on your broader formation. Time spent reading things related to field but not … More The 40 hour week
While I was walking over to pick up the car I realized how I became phobic over writing as an act: in Reeducation we had to write things out over and over again, making long confessions of flaws and past errors, reinterpreting ourselves to a certain paradigm. I did not want to do this because … More Reyes
“There is nothing like having risked your life with people over something immensely important to you.” —Guyot I am obsessed with civil rights because I associated it with school. It was the big event of the day when I started. School was freedom in itself, and freedom was also taking place. This is the feeling … More Lawrence Guyot
The list does keep changing slightly but the number keeps being four. 1. The present book, on race. 2. Cane Cultures. 3. Vallejo — intellectual and cultural biography. 4. Vallejo — fractured subjectivity. When I think about these in a practical sense there are more, since every essay in the present book leads to other … More Books for me to write
Today I will track down the car and pick up the vegetables, and I will also choose at least one thing from this list. My writing group has started and I have to work 25 minutes on research. I also get to work 2 hours on syllabi, although since it is the weekend I am … More Saturday
On the idea that you should not have done your degree if you are not willing to take just any academic job, so long as it is on the tenure track, even a great sacrificer and penitent like César Vallejo did not stay in Lima but went to Paris. This was a career move for … More On some things that are not true
W. H. Auden makes the case for art and against social science, sport, and hygiene I was raised with. I must actually study Thomas’ post, which I have not yet done and which is another matter. I am not a Bohemian but a great bourgeoise. To be a Bohemian like César Vallejo, for instance, you … More On Bohemians
Here we are in December, rained out of a canoe and kayaking excursion and listening to a man from San Sebastián tell us his fascinating tale of life in the Louisiana swamps. He had come to practice for living in the Amazon, but he has stayed. I am the one sitting with crossed arms in … More I need to look more fashionable.
Read all about it. Read more from Copenhagen, remembering of course that Denmark is our theme this Christmas (which is not over yet, we are on the tenth day)! Under Which Lyre A REACTIONARY TRACT FOR THE TIMES (Phi Beta Kappa Poem, Harvard, 1946) Ares at last has quit the field, The bloodstains on the … More W. H. Auden
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