The sun is so bright, the light is almost as white as it is in June at the 50th parallel. I stayed up impractically late, and I slept late. I am going to give this up but I like to sleep mornings in sunny rooms. I am not sick any more and I want to … More White light
Dear Writing Group: No me he querido extender sobre el tema semanal porque hay tanto que decir, ¡y tanto! Yo esta semana tengo 4,000 palabras remal escritas ¡y es tanto! es decir, ¡son tantas! Algo con qué trabajar dan y esto ¡ya es tanto! Quand on a la vie et la jeunesse, c’est déjà tellement! … More On failure
I get to clock in another hour of work today, making five, because I have been experimenting with Lyx and that is what I am going to use. I will not have Scrivener, I will write in Lyx and put everything in well hierchized and well labeled files, old school style, and that is it. … More As e goes to infinity: further counter-advice on time
This novel is about the problems of white society defining itself; there are all these Afro-Cuban characters with interesting stories but the issues on which the novel centers itself are managing these people and defining whiteness, distinguishing degrees of whiteness (see J. C. Sánchez, apud Monteleone). The OJO CONOCEDOR is the OJO NACIONAL because only … More Cecilia Valdés
Now we have two novels in my chapter or essay which are explicitly about building the white nation, to the extent that they are about building one. That means it is time for more, or time to work on theoretical framework and structure. (I have always been outraged when people call cultural appropriation and ethnic … More Still more of that article
Two of the main pieces of advice given in the attempt to train people to compete down, and my answers to them. Standard: Submit to conferences abstracts for things you are going to write, that should be done by then. If they come out slightly different than planned, that is all right, you explain it … More More counter-advice
In this novel and the society it portrays, the maintenance of racially segregated families (the planter with an official and an unofficial family) leads to incest, which destabilizes the patriarchy because it collapses the control the planter maintains and also supports and extends by having multiple, separate families. This threatens to destroy (and not support) … More The last three paragraphs of that article
Unfortunately I just lost an important and substantial to-do list, and must start to recompose it. Monday I must be sure to call the gutter men and the roofers. There is also my university committee to deal with and I cannot continue to put this off, disgusted though I am with what is going on … More Sol y sombra III
Here is a good thought-piece, Fields Have Narratives, and Words Without Borders is one of the places I think I should publish fiction. Today instead I discovered the current location of a good scholar of the Spanish Enlightenment, and I joined the SCMLA for three years. I am going to submit to its conference in … More Sol y sombra II
In my post yesterday describing my day off, I neglected to add the local color. Here it is: ♦ The dermatologist’s office was very Republican. You could tell even out in the halls by the proliferation of middle aged men in LSU gear, and it was yet more obvious coming into the offices and seeing … More Sol y sombra I
