You cannot do it while tearing yourself down. I told Reeducation I could not afford the kind of self destruction it wanted and I was right. I told the academic advisors that my problem was not not knowing how to write but having had my hands cut off, as it were, and they did not … More More on how to write
This film is like an art installation. Axé.
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different. And this is a different attitude from the baroque desengaño but I would like to re-study some baroque literature now. Axé.
I have not read this book, but should have done, and it is here. Axé.
Before I went into Reeducation, others were doing it and it seemed a bad thing. They would gleefully tick off the things wrong with them from the list they had been given, saying look, I am dysfunctional here, and here, and here … and I would think: “I cannot afford to undertake that kind of … More Types of pain people are in, or, why you should prefer health
And the e-mail says: “Your research is so exciting. I cannot wait to read the paper.” (I have a lot to say about this but the reason I am putting it up here is that I am trying to internalize that working view of myself.) Axé.
I am looking up a branch of the family. At the level of our parents, many were born in the teens and twenties and that, in Denmark and the Faroes, was long ago — or so it seems to me; society has changed so very greatly there. Håkon Brinch, our grandfather the doctor, was born … More In which the past is more past than it once was
Mere om Norden — cruising among the islands of the North Atlantic, by the Arctic line … Here we sail from Iceland to the Faroes and beyond … Finally, I really liked this film although I understand the criticisms in the reviews. I like modern Icelandic very much and I think Iceland, which I have … More Cold Light
We can get these things at home now but I remember the excitement of their being rare and one seeing them in the cinema, and it being a special occasion. Here is the 1915 Alice in Wonderland, too. Let me not go on, all of these things are too fascinating and I love Scandinavian other-worldliness. … More 1922
So at one of the receptions I ran into a heavy researcher who asked me about a teaching project and said my ideas on teaching are right. Do you see? I am not actually crazy. #OccupyHE Axé.
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