This is one more of my morose posts, designed to shed pain so that I can move on in life. Why I am in this degree of pain it is hard to tell, but it is as though I had murdered someone. The phrase “you have no power over me any more” helps a great … More Intimidating, Selfish, Threatening
I was born already tired of hearing about Tillie Olsen because in graduate school, the older students would insist she be included on every woman related syllabus, and they evinced some sort of secret knowledge that she was the answer (she was always to be assigned as the final reading in the course, the period). … More Tillie Olsen
Despite the fact that I should not need or want glasses because I have contact lenses, I do want them and I am convinced I need them; despite the fact that I can survive with two different pairs of dime store glasses, I want real ones and I think this is reasonable. Despite the fact … More On Corrective Lenses
Marilyn Young has had a very interesting career. In her essay in Working It Out (213-227), you can see that she thought of herself as a professional historian far sooner in life than I or most people I knew in graduate school in the eighties did. I do not really know why this is or … More Working It Out: Marilyn Young
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The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek such outside money and accept strings. The reason they have to do so is that many state legislatures have chosen not to have state universities any more. At many ‘state … More Juan Cole
Graduation was this weekend and meetings about next year start tomorrow. Since next year starts tomorrow, we will remember to write our own job descriptions and not volunteer. I have of course just agreed to chair a really onerous committee for the next two years, so I am not qualified to speak on this matter … More Next Year Starts Now
A nadie le importa Milton Wolff ni el Morganza Spillway, cosa que me extraña a mí — que si fuera esto un huracán me estarían mirando todos. But if you would like, you can watch the whole town of Butte LaRose go down right here. Meanwhile, in graduate school and beyond we were constantly having … More On Seriousness
11:04 PM in the Crescent City, and the river is going to rise. Despite this distraction we are closing in on the answer to our general question. You have to do what you want to, but the problem in our day was that women were not to think of what they wanted to do. Rather, … More On Doing What You Want To
I have heard this many times, but in fact I do believe I am unlike the others. Neither the management of time, nor of money, nor of “impulses” is difficult for me. Most advice on life does not apply to me because it is about these three topics. I am unlike some others, too, in … More “Do Not Think You Are Not Like the Others”
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