It is that one is not required to be one’s own enemy. In Reeducation this was required, and a great deal of academic advice is structured in the same way: one is to suspect and mistrust oneself. One could even harbor friendly feelings toward oneself. I have done this sometimes — especially, as I remember, … More I see
Verbal distinctions should be valued, since they stand for mental – intellectual – distinctions. Yet one feels it is somehow a pity that the word “poet” should have been split asunder. For nowadays when we speak of a poet, we think only of the utterer of such lyric, birdlike notes as “With ships the sea … More The Telling of the Tale
Las ilusiones del patriotismo no tienen término. En el primer siglo de nuestra era, Plutarco se burló de quienes declaran que la luna de Atenas es mejor que la luna de Corinto; Milton, en el siglo XVII notó que Dios tenía la costumbre de revelarse primero a Sus ingleses; Fitche, a principios del siglo XIX, … More Nuestro pobre individualismo
Equipment: I have located a cat door that could be installed in a window. I could also get one of those self-cleaning litter boxes so the cat would not have to go out. The Litter Robot is the most entertaining but there are other self-cleaning litter boxes which are much less expensive and which cannot … More Minou
Language, identity and interculturality…. #OccupyHE Axé.
When I was in high school I had a mild eating disorder but I could not maintain it in college. I worried about it though, thought I should get it back, felt that without it I was falling down on my job in some way. In graduate school I became yet more concerned about not … More Le café
That overwhelmed feeling. You have to take control even if according to the authorities you should drift, as well as permit engulfment. That isolated feeling. The only answer is to create an R1 bubble around oneself and live in it. This takes some effort. I am addicted to this song, House of Stone. The adjuncts are … More mardi
The objects which the monastic rules assigned to monks for meditation had the task of making the world and its drives repugnant. The mode of thought which we pursue today comes from a similar determination. It has the intention, at a moment wherein the politicians in whom the opponents of Fascism had placed their hopes … More Afsnit ti
It is possible to live yet better, in my case largely by not staying up so late and going running more regularly. Yesterday, though, I planted trees along the Bayou Teche and went swimming. The ride along the levee was beautiful. Then I looked I at my citation statistics for annual review and realized that … More Sunday meditation…
It is possible to live better yet, particularly if I would not stay up so late. Mornings are always better after one gets up, but in other places I also like waking up in itself. Not feeling able to face the day is a sign of depression, it is said, although I would hazard instead … More Les aphorismes du matin
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