Well, if you are on partial leave such that you are only teaching two classes, actually two sections of the same class, and it is one you have given before, and the students in it are at a level appropriate for it; and after that you only have a very few independent study and graduate … More The greatest profession, and so on
I have become faculty advisor for the secular students’ alliance, an important organization because it creates a space in which secular students can be secular. It is not so easy here because they face ostracism from family and friends and some are not in a position to come out of the closet, so they need … More On teaching, and on how one is seen
“Be good to yourself.” This, for me, since Reeducation, is a radical notion. Also, while it may be true that without his Parisian poverty Vallejo would never have come to the perceptions which undergird some of his greatest poems, I disagree that without Reeducation I would not have realized certain things, or achieved certain realizations. … More And more lemmas for the rest of this week.
La extranjera A Francis de Miomandre —«Habla con dejo de sus mares bárbaros, con no sé qué algas y no sé qué arenas; reza oración a dios sin bulto y peso, envejecida como si muriera. En huerto nuestro que nos hizo extraño, ha puesto cactus y zarpadas hierbas. Alienta del resuello del desierto y ha … More More from TALA
The things I used to work on are beautiful and fascinating but I never stopped to enjoy them, really, because from time immemorial I had been employing the efficiency model in the interest of getting things done, making deadlines. Other people may have explored as undergraduates or beginning graduate students but my friends and I … More Du plaisir
I think this is from Tala. BEBER Al doctor Pedro de Alba Recuerdo gestos de criaturas y son gestos de darme el agua. En el valle de Río Blanco, en donde nace el Aconcagua, llegué a beber, salté a beber en el fuete de una cascada, que caía crinada y dura y se rompía yerta … More Beber
Incredibly, Friday is the ninth anniversary of the storm. Rising Tide, the bloggers’ conference that grew out of this, is on September 13 this year, which means I may be able to go. Will you be there too? I have to be back in Maringouin by evening, because I like Maringouin now and have something … More Katrina 9
In Reeducation, as we know, my ability to remain objective and maintain a certain level of detachment from things was considered to be a lack of affect … when really it was just a professional skill, as well as an unwillingness to participate in histrionics. Did I need really destructive treatment … a lethal blow … More De l’objectivité
A look at psychoanalytic literature is always enlightening and also engrossing, and I would have studied this full time or would do (it is another way I would betray my current, and apparently very jealous profession). I see that the “false self” that U.S. psychotherapy associates with success, is not what the notion of “false … More Des faits nouvelles
Stand up for yourself. But if I do, I will be killed. But what if that is not true any longer? That is the exercise for this week. For the semester and the future, sweeping away all the complex cobwebs, the line and program is: 1. The original disaster happened because I was too intimidated … More For this week
coldhearted scientist وداد 