One of the things I like about this book is that it says teaching takes time, especially with new courses. It tells new faculty not to fault themselves if all their time is going to teaching. Then it tells you how to take research time back. This is realistic. Before I started quailing to the … More Further appreciation for the Compleat Academic
→ The post of the day is from Feminéma, on salaries and negotiation, very important. → The post beautiful award for today goes to Jonathan, on poetry, theory, and poetics — what a relief it is to read that in lieu of the news. I had planned to spend this day on teaching activities, and … More What I mean, #2
Perhaps I am not a coldhearted scientist, but a fascinated theorist. I really do not know what to do about this name question. Now that I do not think about Reeducation all my literary ideas, the ones I could see float by but could not catch, are flooding in. I cannot keep up physically, but … More Fascinated theorist
In graduate school there was a parodist who wrote a play called El ¿huh? de las niñas y el ¡ja! de Boy-oh-Boy and a tract called La rebelión de las personas non gratas. The personas non gratas were, as we knew from other parodies, the students. I cannot remember the Unamuno parody but there has … More F. L. de Moratín
→ I have changed my name again, to Coldhearted scientist. There was the Hedonistic pleasureseeker who had been called that as a criticism, and I have always been criticized as a coldhearted scientist so I am claiming that until I find my real name. I may delete this weblog if it says what it apparently … More Coldhearted scientist
None of you are commenting upon my new name or helping me to mourn Mictlantecuhtli, which I miss and might have to resurrect one day. This was a poetry magazine at NIU that appears not to have lasted; it has an interesting article on Vallejo in the first number, despite poor bibliography (a situation which … More I am imperialist, colonialist, and naïve
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♦ This sketch does not justify my working title which refers to Villaverde’s “ojo conocedor” — the eye which sees race. The “discerning eye” in his text and in others is what makes one (Latin) American. Elite criollos need it so as to know with whom they are dealing; others do too, so as to know … More That Discerning Eye
Graniza tanto, como para que yo recuerde y acreciente las perlas que he recogido del hocico mismo de cada tempestad. No se vaya a secar esta lluvia. A menos que me fuese dado caer ahora para ella, o que me enterrasen mojado en el agua que surtiera de todos los fuegos. ¿Hasta dónde me alcanzará … More LXXVII
Voilà! I told you I would feel normal soon, and now I do. In Reeducation one was permanently maimed, which I did not believe, but later it seemed I might be caught in that net. But of course not. I think it really is true — I am over it. I have thought so before, … More Et voilà — et c’est vrai
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