L’irritation
23/07/2016
The work I am doing is not mine, and this greatly irritates me. Axé.
Category: Working
Luxe, calme, et volupté
22/07/2016
Review of Stanford University It is the most opulent university I have ever visited or expect to visit. It is so beautiful that the mind clears upon entering campus. All the chairs and tables are at a good height, and every room has a view. It has really good scanning and copying services. It also … More Luxe, calme, et volupté
On consideration
12/07/2016
I thought I was not getting a great deal done at those archives, but upon review, I did, and would also have gotten more out of what I was doing had I realized, while doing it, that I was in fact doing a great deal. I feel very far away but there are two things, … More On consideration
Une lettre
10/07/2016
I am absent, but I will write a letter of recommendation nonetheless. Axé.
Et on y va
05/07/2016
I am going away for a month, ciao-ciao. When I get home, I will work in the office. I tend to avoid this but in fact there are many things at which I am more efficient there. I also tend to think the office and building are alienating places, and I have been right about … More Et on y va
“A writer’s work is the product of laziness”
05/07/2016
J. L. Borges on writing. Axé.
That Vallejo panel
05/07/2016
I must compose my to-do list: the Service Learning project, the Vallejo panel, the Curriculum and Instruction article, the Houston paper and its submission somewhere, and the Vallejo paper … not to mention the prison presentation. I also have the prize submission, the archival research, and the bureaucratic document on my own behalf. For Vallejo, … More That Vallejo panel
On Comparative Literature
05/07/2016
. . . in having to build its own comparative apparatus, the discipline is forced to balance breadth against depth. It can escape neither geographical reach nor philosophical literacy. It thus requires the achievement, and not the mere avowal of a multicultural perspective. What do you think of this piece? Axé.
The author as gesture, again
04/07/2016
I do not know that I understand this text, yet, well enough to explain it, but I do remember writing a paper in graduate school entitled “Poetry as gesture in the criticism of Baudelaire.” I might be able to find this paper again but it had ideas in it including the poem as event (something … More The author as gesture, again
Writing group report
28/06/2016
Last week I finished a draft of a report for the department on an ongoing service and teaching initiative. It has been judged good. I will keep working on it, two hours per week, and spend another hour or so a week implementing aspects of it, for the foreseeable future. I also got two conference … More Writing group report
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