It was an old journal issue when I bought it and I’m only recycling it now, partly because it was the first issue of that journal I ever acquired, when I had just discovered it, and partly because it has an article by Jean Franco, now classic, that I still want to re-study. As an object, the journal is a memento of my first adventure in South America, and its table of contents is a snapshot of the era.
The journal is going, though, as is Ortega’s La teoría poética de César Vallejo, as are Bopp, Merquior, Nadeau, and more things, like the offprint of a marvelous LARR article on slavery, with amazing bibliography. All the copies are too tattered now, and the Ortega volume is composed of articles also available elsewhere (Ortega republished himself, or was republished, I am not sure why but perhaps because of other things going out of print).
About Bopp: that’s an important book, especially for me, but I recycled the photocopy because I need to get lighter. And as we can see, I can acquire it again. I love to study, and I am fascinated by that period, and I am coming back to it. I cannot believe how Reeducation managed to disconnect me from work.
I’ve got to get that time back; people say you can’t, but I don’t really see why not. I also see something: things don’t come clear to me without community. Not having had a community to work in is why Reeducation was so powerful. (I’ve talked before about having an anti-community, which I still do, and it’s a problem even though now more under control than it was. But not having a community is also key.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 