Δ This blog has few readers but me. It is a reason why I should merge it with my research blog, and work more on my research blog. Or spend more time organizing research notes in other platforms.
Δ In any case, Mary Niall Mitchell at the University of New Orleans has this important project and may know things about New Orleans history that will support my project. I must be inspired.
Δ There is an inspiring British rapper named Akala whom I should use as an inspiration deity. This is his website. He is very intelligent and versatile. He has books, but I am interested in his graphic novel first.
Δ I need to read Ann Twinam’s Purchasing Whiteness and want to buy it, but should look for it in a library first.
Δ Allegory is not about mechanical meanings but about inner life and complex imagery. We are freed to contemplate these things since there is no doubt about theme.
Δ Many works of literature have multifractal structures.
Δ Border Cantosis — an exhibit I will see when I get to San José, which I will do, believe it or not.
Δ A smart, very balanced piece on the Clinton e-mail “scandal.”
Δ A comfortingly pessimistic view of the election and American militarism. Or unsettlingly pessimistic? What should one do (take on the arms industry and the military-prison industrial complex, has typically been my answer)?
Δ I thought steppes were cold Siberian plains with prison camps on them, and I was joking when I said the American prairies and pampas were steppes, but it seems they are. Some steppes are even subtropical. The Silk Road is on steppes, and I have been on one or two.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
[N. Ed. Here was a spam comment that reminded me of the existence of this post, so I appreciated it. –Z]