There used to be a website on which I used to comment all the time. It was for escapees from Reeducation and it, along with comments from Jennifer who has also escaped from some cult-like atmospheres, is how I removed the gris-gris from myself. Now someone else from that site has very kindly sent me … More In fact, I am very intelligent.
→ Weeks ago, someone left one of these in black and gray plaid over here. I have no idea whose it is and I have finally tried it on; I am keeping it and I recommend it. It is a medium and really I should wear a small, but it will do; it is incredibly … More Z’s tips for living
Is anyone here on Linux? I am not really enough of a geek for this but I am on it anyway out of pure rebellion. Here is the problem with my Linux box: it picks up wireless everywhere but in my house, where it insists on being wired. There are Linux users groups in Houston … More Linux
This is being shown in Maringuouin today. Axé.
Perhaps where I differ from Doris Sommer on the 19th century novel is that she sees the racial and cultural issues it engages as through the post-Vasconcelos, post-Freyre, official mestizaje offered as a solution to the question of social cohesio, and does not realize it. Or that she buys in too easily to the idea … More Working on a structure
These are the main academic influences I have, I really do believe. I am not saying they are good. I am just saying I think these are the key influences for form of thought and that is why I am as I am. → Many modernists in Latin American literature nowadays do not have the … More Why my formation is different from that of many other people
My state of lucidity is extreme. I am irritated not to have been able to attain this for so long, but there it is. Anyway to shore it up I am taking notes on that Cameron book without reading it. This will be better since I can create my own flash cards as it were, … More Julia Cameron Crib Sheet
What is the Romantic (and I guess the realist) novel about? Writing that I was able to remember how I was going to answer that question years ago: ORIGINS. I was going to use Marthe Robert’s book, now old, Roman d’origines / Origines du roman. And notice how in her other work, she also tolerates … More Marthe Robert
Now I need to come up with something about Marthe Robert and Doris Sommer and María and more. I was allowing myself to read a little more about Vallejo before going on, and I discovered a very, very important fact. Namely, the kind of surprise I get for not doing things and not keeping up … More Michelle Clayton
♦Lisa Cohen’s book. Apparently Esther Murphy’s father scorned the children because they would not be able to repeat his trajectory, having been born at a different time. The family climate was a “miasma of depression and fear of withdrawn favor.” (29) ♦ That entire issue of RQ where Hart’s article on Vallejo as optical illusion … More Thursday topics
