From 1912, when he was 22. The improbable, or all too probable title is “The last excursion of a tuberculosis patient, through the city, by electric tram.” O último passeio de um tuberculoso, pela cidade, de bonde. dos salões abertos saem pianos enxotados a abanar suas caudas há luzes que brilham do farol lugar-nenhum há … More Oswald de Andrade’s first poem
We are to economize on time, protect time, save time, conserve time, and work quickly but less is said about using time. I stayed up late last night writing a draft that I had to be in an altered state of sorts to write because in order to write it, I was going to have to … More Sobre el tiempo
São Paulo! comoção da minha vida… Os meus amores são flores feitas de original… Arlequinal!… Traje de losangos… Cinza e Ouro… Luz e bruma… Forno e inverno morno… Elegâncias sutis sem escândalos, sem ciúmes… Perfumes de Paria… Arys! Bofetadas líricas no Trianon… Algodoal! São Paulo! comoção de minha vida… Galicismo a berrar nos desertos da … More In which São Paulo is a “Gallicism bellowing in the deserts of America”
Here is some poetry of an actual Fascist, very circumspect. Then there is noucentisme, Eugeni d’Ors’ movement, which is really quite strange, and there had been regenerationism as well. I have just read a fairly current Spanish novel I believe to be about memory but think is about evasion. It has touches of Vargas Llosa, Borges and … More Conservative modernism, and conservative modernity
I have never been able to stand this man and I am so glad the Daily Reveille recommends standing up to him. “I was impressed with the commitment of everyone in the room to do what’s right for LSU,” Griffin said. “We all believe there are wonderful ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness through technology. I … More William Jenkins
My university likes honor societies. In college I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and I joined it, to the amusement of those who felt a true aristocrat and rebel would turn it down. I did not intend to join further societies, however. Here I was first invited to join Phi Beta Delta, and felt … More In which I request your views
I wrote most of my dissertation in São Paulo, Brazil, where people did not find it strange that one should make progress. There was something marvelous in this. Nobody sighed in the background, nobody suggested it should not be done. One of my friends did remark on my “strange capacity to keep working on things [I] do … More Things I learned in São Paulo
I have no middle name and was always told I could choose my own. I toyed with this as a child but in the end could not choose just one. My youngest brother, who is adopted, chose his own name in the end but made it out of pre-existing elements: his name in high school … More Ouidad
“If you can think of the mind as having one hundred ergs of energy, and the average man uses fifty percent of his energy dealing with the everyday problems of the world — just general kinds of things — then he has fifty percent more to do creative kinds of things that he wants to … More What I mean, #4
The post of the day is from Clarissa and gives step by step instructions on how to deal with my ex — who actually said, when I left, that I had no right to do so since I did not have his permission. I said this to him: 1. I am not responsible for your illness, … More Poesía y guerra
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