The debate between them, or between the tomato and the eggplant, is a product of overwork. People should not fall prey to this and “virtue-signal” by saying which one they like best. There should be time for everything. C. says it is the parenting aspect of teaching that is detrimental to her research. I don’t, … More Rant on teaching and research

They are described in Sealsfield, Life in the New World, and Longfellow apparently liked this description–and those of the swamps, and the Attakapas, and the southwest in general. Axé.

Look at these representations. Axé.

“For all the ways in which Latin America, as its intellectuals have pointed out for years, has suffered as the local testingground of U.S. experiments with extranational power, its role in the past and future shaping of U.S. identity narratives remains disturbingly understudied and undertheorized.” Axé.

The weekend was curative – I was exhausted/at the end of my rope – and realized how deep the usual pain actually is – and am now back here suffering. It really makes me wonder about lots of things but in particular about how to turn off the suffering factor in the immediate term. The … More La souffrance

Typically, by Friday, exhausted, and on Saturday, sad and angry. What goes into all of this? Axé.

What then of another set of appropriations and influences, that also imagines authenticity through U.S. texts? Axé.

I want to read his two new novels, but they are very expensive. Axé.