No hay tal yo de conjunto. Allende toda posibilidad de sentenciosa tahurería, he tocado con mi emoción ese desengaño en trance de separarme de un compañero. Retornaba yo a Buenos Aires y dejábale a él en Mallorca. Entrambos comprendimos que salvo en esa cercanía mentirosa o distinta que hay en las cartas, no nos encontraríamos … More Encore de la nadería
I saw this really beautiful Swedish film last night, As it is in Heaven, and now I see that there is a sequel in preparation, Så ok på jorden, to be released in the fall. In the meantime you should see Så som i himmelen which is, of course, quite Swedish. Axé.
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
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and … More Barbaric Yawp
La atestiguación segunda la saco del tercer trozo de la Vida e historia de Torres Villarroel. Este sistematizador de Quevedo, docto en estrellería, dueño y señor de todas las palabras, avezado al manejo de las más gritonas figuras, quiso también definirse, y palpó su fundamental incongruencia; vio que era semejante a los otros, vale decir, … More Yet more nadería
I should read him more, and I should have seen this sooner. To borrow some inflammatory language from Marc Bousquet, the second is a waste product of the first. If the MOOC providers are like meatpackers, then the flipped classroom is how they’re going to get us to eat their offal. Now, we should look … More Jonathan Rees
“The brain is a hierarchical system,” Carhart-Harris said. “The highest-level parts”—such as the default-mode network—“have an inhibitory influence on the lower-level parts, like emotion and memory.” He discovered that blood flow and electrical activity in the default-mode network dropped off precipitously under the influence of psychedelics, a finding that may help to explain the loss … More Michael Pollan
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
Nadie pretenderá que en el vistazo con el cual abarcamos toda una noche límpida, esté prefigurado el número exacto de las estrellas que hay en ella. Nadie, meditándolo, aceptará que en la conjetural y nunca realizada ni realizable suma de diferentes situaciones de ánimo, pueda estribar el yo. Lo que no se lleva a cabo … More This part of the text is particularly brilliant
1. “Your university is abusive toward [you],” said someone who does not know the place, and was just basing this on a few comments I made. That is why I have difficulty starting to work, why my first instinct is flight (no, not fight), and why no amount of advice on time and task management … More On abusive relationships
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