The moral thrust of Dinesen’s tales leads here, to a representation of life as performance–a necessary fiction. In her pliable and accommodating theater, the truth is found in the design of the stories we tell in order to understand whom we might become. Throughout her career, with both the fiction and nonfiction, Dinesen is urging … More Isak Dinesen
Here, in an illustration made about 1400 CE, Gawain beheads the Green Knight, who survives this. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written by the Pearl Poet, and Sir Gawain’s horse is called Gringalet. The story begins at King Arthur’s court, but there is a kind of preface setting it into the context of … More Gawain and the Green Knight
Here is the screenplay for FGL’s avant-garde play or film. Axé.
I read The Racial State for work but it was fun. This book is very revealing and answers many of the questions I had. Axé.
I had not read anything new at all last Wednesday and so did not post, but now I have read two books, one good and one bad. The bad one, Other Peoples’ Skin, a collection of four novellas by four people, is morally uplifting but as writing, it is about at the level of airplane … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS and OTHER PEOPLES’ SKIN
For pleasure I am reading the Moroccan Letters of Cadalso, after which I will read his Lugubrious Nights. These books come from a strange and different world, I must say. To be able to read them is rather wonderful. Axé.
I have been meaning to do this for some time. I am not saying these are my favorite books or the ones I most recommend. I am saying they are the ones that were most influential in decisions I made, or most reflected realizations at which I had arrived. Adiós muchachos. Memoir of an ex-Sandinista. … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: 15 Books That Influenced Me
Madre nuestra, esta mañana me he corrido con las hiedras, al ver la azul caravana de las piedras, de las piedras, de las piedras… –C.V. In the tropics, the ants arrive quickly, furiously, and voraciously to each new event. That is why the last scion of the Buendía tribe is always already being eaten by … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: The Ants
People say professors lecture from ancient, yellowing notes, but mine lectured from drafts of their newest book manuscripts and invited their famous friends from other institutions to do the same. This is why, when I became a professor, the institutions I worked for seemed to me to be behind the times in terms of research … More On College Teaching, and on Paulo Freire
I liked this novel; I found it well done and well written. The characters have real mettle and depth and are serious, so I like them; I must be a serious or earnest person. Axé.
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