On Unamuno
17/03/2011
What do you think of Miguel de Unamuno? I think Miguel de Unamuno is really weird. But I have just come across Frances Wyers’ book on him and her tone is pleasantly arch. Axé.
Category: Bibliography
Walden
06/03/2011
I have heard that during the two years Thoreau spent at Walden, he sent his laundry back to town for doing. This is funny but I actually think it is all right given the nature of his project. “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts,” said Thoreau in Walden, … More Walden
Mexico
05/03/2011
The curious do not understand my interest in Mexico, so uncultured and so dangerous. To those fearful I suggest the cultural excursions of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. I am sure they will put you at ease. There is one within the city almost every day, and out of town most weekends. The … More Mexico
Duncan on H.D.
27/02/2011
The H.D. Book is at its core a polemic–elevating the female and the nonconformist and the heterodox against the institutions of men. One of these institutions was literature. Axé.
February 12
12/02/2011
This is Lincoln’s birthday, and Darwin’s, too. I am in Houston, where I had my hair cut at Michael Lyndon. Then I went to the Ménil Collection, including the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Chapel, and the Cy Twombley Gallery. These last two truly amazed me, and I had not been to them before. In the … More February 12
Le plaisir du texte: Édouard Glissant
09/02/2011
“Soleil de la conscience” des mutations de notre monde…. Qui sait qu’un homme d’une importance considérable pour ses semblables est mort jeudi matin à Paris? Axé.
Kate Chopin, “A Night in Acadie”
02/02/2011
“The las’ time I came over to Foché’s ball I got caught in the rain on my way up to my cousin’s house, an’ my dress! J’vous réponds! it was a sight. Li’le mo’, I would miss the ball. As it was, the dress looked like I’d wo’ it weeks without doin’-up.” Axé.
Notes toward the Spring 2013 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
01/02/2011
I need help with this. Anyone who would like to, please read and comment. You are also free to use any of my ideas in your own work. Note 1: All readings have to be short and fairly simple, since this particular student population does not have the same level of facility in Spanish that … More Notes toward the Spring 2013 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”
29/11/2010
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, … More Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”
Salman Rushdie
18/11/2010
On Wednesdays we read for pleasure, and it is a fact that considering my profession I do not read enough new literature or theory, let alone do so for pleasure; it recently occurred to me, however, that reading randomly for pleasure is in fact research although it is too multidirectional to be called “work” in … More Salman Rushdie
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