A friend back home took this picture today, and I would like to be meditating like that man. In winter the ocean looks golden when the sun is low. Here is Chapman’s Homer, upon looking into which Keats felt like Balboa or as he said, stout Cortez upon first staring at the Pacific, “Silent, upon … More Balboa, or stout Cortez
My culture course is not as challenging as the version of it being given by the Spanish Professor, but the students are still having a hard time. That is probably because, as was revealed today in a study, a majority of courses at my institution lack sufficient rigor. My course imitates a course given at … More Have you seen this book?
→ The post of the day is from Feminéma, on salaries and negotiation, very important. → The post beautiful award for today goes to Jonathan, on poetry, theory, and poetics — what a relief it is to read that in lieu of the news. I had planned to spend this day on teaching activities, and … More What I mean, #2
…about spending time on teaching. Unlike everyone else, I do not spend enough time up front and it always means I spend more time later. Giving out assignments designed for people who have skills my students don’t, assignments that are easier to write because they do not break things down into steps and smaller steps, … More What I mean, #1
Perhaps I am not a coldhearted scientist, but a fascinated theorist. I really do not know what to do about this name question. Now that I do not think about Reeducation all my literary ideas, the ones I could see float by but could not catch, are flooding in. I cannot keep up physically, but … More Fascinated theorist
I had not thought of him for some time but he would be a very interesting person to revisit, for historical reasons. Also, I must come back to that Andermann book: he discusses foundational violence that is simultaneously denied and evoked. I am constantly amazed and gratified to find that while I was absent, other … More Mariano Picón Salas
In graduate school there was a parodist who wrote a play called El ¿huh? de las niñas y el ¡ja! de Boy-oh-Boy and a tract called La rebelión de las personas non gratas. The personas non gratas were, as we knew from other parodies, the students. I cannot remember the Unamuno parody but there has … More F. L. de Moratín
→ I have changed my name again, to Coldhearted scientist. There was the Hedonistic pleasureseeker who had been called that as a criticism, and I have always been criticized as a coldhearted scientist so I am claiming that until I find my real name. I may delete this weblog if it says what it apparently … More Coldhearted scientist
None of you are commenting upon my new name or helping me to mourn Mictlantecuhtli, which I miss and might have to resurrect one day. This was a poetry magazine at NIU that appears not to have lasted; it has an interesting article on Vallejo in the first number, despite poor bibliography (a situation which … More I am imperialist, colonialist, and naïve
It has changed. Under the new system my scores would have translated to 165 quantitative, 169 verbal. It appears that 169 verbal is unusual in many schools although it is only 3% higher than 165 in terms of percentile (95/98). But many of those who actually go to graduate school, have very high quantitative scores, … More GRE
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