I have removed everything I have from the cumbersome Endnote and placed it in the virtuous Zotero, and that is how things will be. I will place things from the Seminario there, and from Evernote. I have become quite serious and will become moreso. I have not yet discovered whether I like Scrivener but I … More Zotero
Q. Do you have comments on the idea that “literature is not for everybody, and should only be taught in literature classes” — ? A. That idea makes me mad. I could point to cognitive theory, which makes the argument that literature is an important way we develop our ability to empathize with people who … More Someone agrees with me on composition and the introduction to literature, Dieu merci
Do not, as you introduce your job talk, say that your presentation is “part of a larger project” if the larger project to which you refer is a book of essays edited by someone other than you. Faculty, don’t “professionalize” your students by teaching them phrases like the one quoted above if you do not … More Advice to job candidates
No hay tal yo de conjunto. Basta caminar algún trecho por la implacable rigidez que los espejos del pasado nos abren, para sentirnos forasteros y azorarnos cándidamente de nuestras jornadas antiguas. No hay en ellas comunidad de intenciones, ni un mismo viento las empuja. Lo han declarado así aquellos hombres que escudriñaron con verdad los … More Chuchería, fruslería, insignificancia, tontería, menudencia, bagatela
An old student came by; it had been ten years. She said our workplace is a sad one, that many traumatic events have taken place, but that I look the same as ever and seem happy. I changed her life, she said, by convincing her she could do the professional things she did not think … More Dieci anni
I woke up this morning very clearly aware of the reason I do not like to wake up: waking up means waking up to the university slapping me in the face and then putting me in a barrel of water and covering it, so that I will drown. I will then have to spend the … More La méditation pour cette semaine
Student: This book is something you administer, not something you learn from. When I am working with it and its companion website I am in a frenzy trying to make sure I know where I am and that I am matching the right thing to the right thing. I am completing an exercise and learning … More Some interlaced conversations today
Love, I learned as a child, was a rare honor one should not refuse. It meant material support and sometimes caring and even joy, but the main reason one should not refuse it was that people who loved were in pain. If someone loved you, which would be rare in my case since I was … More Psychanalytique
It is the drudgery of all these websites and all these very detailed exercises and assignments for all of these language courses. I wish I were one of those who wept because I just so could. I have specific things I am interested and want to do and every step further into the so-called profession … More Update
HMMM, I think I should undergo EMDR to get rid of precisely this problem: guilt over having hurt my mother so by doing the Ph.D. I see that this is some way I now torture myself rather than recognize how I was tortured for doing the Ph.D. Instead of recognize how much that hurt, I … More La tristesse — lo que pienso para mí
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