How many have you been to? 1. Tokyo, Japan – 32,450,000 2. Seóul, South Korea – 20,550,000 3. Mexico City, Mexico – 20,450,000 4. New York City, USA – 19,750,000 5. Mumbai, India – 19,200,000 6. Jakarta, Indonesia – 18,900,000 7. Sáo Paulo, Brazil – 18,850,000 8. Delhi, India – 18,680,000 9. Õsaka/Kobe, Japan – … More World’s largest cities and languages, 2012
♦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 The family climate was a “miasma of depression and fear of withdrawn favor.”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
What rakish things have authors you study done? I have been looking at new tv programs about Vallejo and Arguedas. These are some very famous Peruvians and I would like to discuss some of their less famous, or less worshipped activities. For instance, what do you think Vallejo’s issue was with all those girlfriends? He … More An irreverent post on Saint César
Momo came up with a year-in-review concept: look back at the first post of each month. On this blog it is easier to find the last, so that is what I have done. The record shows that at the end of each of the first five months I was happy with what I had accomplished (even … More Last Year
Axé.
Here is an interesting meme post that I cannibalized into a meme: books and projects that interested you before high school. (The original post is much more specific, since its question is what book or experience made one into an intellectual; here I answer that question and say more things.) My intellectual question while I … More Meme
Here is an actual picture of the actual hacienda where Isaacs’ novel is set. It is wonderful but also quite uncanny to be able to call it up, just like that. Axé.
Momo has sent the new logo for our alma mater. It is observable above, to the right. Tomo Hirai, a 24-year-old UC Davis graduate, thought the new UC logo looked like “a loading logo” for a computer operating system such as Windows or Mac. “It cheapened the entire UC System,” Hirai said. “That’s not what … More Brave new logo
César Vallejo’s 120th birthday was this year. Above is his Google Doodle. Here is a Chaucerian grading scale and here is one based on Beckett. I will have to create one out of Vallejo quotations. A Mi metro está midiendo ya dos metros mis husesos concuerdan en género y en número y el verbo encarnado … More Grading scales by poets
Before saying anything truly grave I want to say there is one thing I definitely did not give up for academia and it is that I did not get fat. Seriously: there is this famous colleague I have who gained dozens of pounds eating chocolate during their tenure year, and who says it was worth … More Take Four
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