I taught this novel last semester when I was falling apart. It was too difficult for the students in terms of language, and reading with them I noticed that on the one hand it was a more difficult modernist text than I remembered and on the other, it resembled a nineteenth century potboiler in a … More El señor presidente
…as I was deciding to go on partial leave this semester. 1. The situation, and my health situation, is and has been really bad. I do not recognize this enough but the only explanation for all that keeps happening is that it is bad. Recognizing that is different from joining the culture of complaint, or … More These were the notes I had made
Discipline will not do anything useful with [the problem of self-sabotage and self-hatred]. Just the opposite – it will aggravate the issue. Discipline is a form of masochism, a symptom of self-hate, and you can’t eradicate self-hate with more of the same. And, I suppose, it is because of this that I have such an … More An important comment from Clarissa
“Awards will range from $500-$1,000 with the highest award level going to graduate faculty who teach and/or research in a doctoral program.” If your discipline does not have a Ph.D. program, the university will not support your research as fully, yet it will surely require you produce as much or more than the faculty it … More It is clear
Well, if you are on partial leave such that you are only teaching two classes, actually two sections of the same class, and it is one you have given before, and the students in it are at a level appropriate for it; and after that you only have a very few independent study and graduate … More The greatest profession, and so on
I have become faculty advisor for the secular students’ alliance, an important organization because it creates a space in which secular students can be secular. It is not so easy here because they face ostracism from family and friends and some are not in a position to come out of the closet, so they need … More On teaching, and on how one is seen
“Be good to yourself.” This, for me, since Reeducation, is a radical notion. Also, while it may be true that without his Parisian poverty Vallejo would never have come to the perceptions which undergird some of his greatest poems, I disagree that without Reeducation I would not have realized certain things, or achieved certain realizations. … More And more lemmas for the rest of this week.
La extranjera A Francis de Miomandre —«Habla con dejo de sus mares bárbaros, con no sé qué algas y no sé qué arenas; reza oración a dios sin bulto y peso, envejecida como si muriera. En huerto nuestro que nos hizo extraño, ha puesto cactus y zarpadas hierbas. Alienta del resuello del desierto y ha … More More from TALA
The things I used to work on are beautiful and fascinating but I never stopped to enjoy them, really, because from time immemorial I had been employing the efficiency model in the interest of getting things done, making deadlines. Other people may have explored as undergraduates or beginning graduate students but my friends and I … More Du plaisir
I think this is from Tala. BEBER Al doctor Pedro de Alba Recuerdo gestos de criaturas y son gestos de darme el agua. En el valle de Río Blanco, en donde nace el Aconcagua, llegué a beber, salté a beber en el fuete de una cascada, que caía crinada y dura y se rompía yerta … More Beber
coldhearted scientist وداد 