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It’s the cotton quilt, and I want one. I am resisting buying it because I have bills to pay, but it is on the list. You can order them from Kyoto for 38,000 yen plus shipping, and I don’t know how much that is. But the item itself costs less than $300. That’s more fun … More Kakefuton

There is this book on Russian Montparnasse, and there is the writer Ekaterina V. Bakunina, who wrote The Body (1933) and Love Among Six. I’m in the wrong field. I would like to work on this and I’ve got my Baltic modernism project too, and I need Russian, Latvian, and Estonian, really. Recently I realized … More Ekaterina V. Bakunina

The latest book I’ve recycled is John Polt’s translation of Calvert Casey’s stories, with an introduction by Ilan Stavans, inscribed to my father. I recycled it because the spine was faced and I couldn’t see it in the shelf, and because then, when in the car, bleach from a leaking bottle got on it. I … More Calvert Casey and John Polt

I can now get electronically, or have in books: Alcibíades, Mirla. On Mariátegui, Amauta, vanguardias (article)Espejo Asturrizaga, Juan. César Vallejo. Itinerario del hombreHiggins, James. César Vallejo en su poesía (1989). (I liked Higgins when I finally met him as a person, and this seems like a good book)Monguió, Luis. César Vallejo (vida, obra, antología)Ortega, Julio. … More Vallejo Recycling

Sánchez Prado HistoryGET Gruzinski’s book and consider his order of thingsThought: Start with Cortés’ second letter, and with Dussell on Tenochtitlan 1492REPORTS ON: Popol Vuh, Chilam-Balam, Nezahuacóyotl, Cantares mexicanos, more? Tezozómoc?SCHOLARS: León-Portilla, Garibay, assign others? … or actually, just our book?Then: Visión de los vencidos AND Bernal Díaz: non-triumphal* important to note neither Spaniards nor … More Mexico course – draft

The New Yorker sent me an article on philosophical counseling, and The Nation had an article on Kierkegaard and despair that finally convinced me to be interested in him. The “sickness unto death” is the loss of self. There is much to consider in it. Also, speaking of things I learn about from magazines, I’d … More Des philosophies … and some subscriptions

What I thought about it: Bernstein suffered a great deal. I’m sure I’d have liked him, though. Also, he and Felicia died of smoking, I am pretty sure. She had lung cancer by 56 and he was only 72 when he had his heart attack. Also, he had been struggling with emphysema from a young … More Maestro

I noticed the Café Gran Premio a block from my house and thought it looked interesting. Then I went back to this tab on surrealist places in Mexico and discovered that the Café Gran Premio was one. I am not sure how this is possible since the café was only founded in 1962? But I … More L’hasard obectif

“For Arendt, the political emancipation of the bourgeoisie was the cornerstone of the modern nation-state, in which political laws were governed by the private interests of businessmen who had found it necessary to take over the apparatus of the state in order to deploy the military in their colonial ventures. It was this co-option of … More The nation-state