Green, green grass of home
10/06/2014
I am home again, although we are still having funereal music. This song is quite deep, in both versions. I must do many things and also visit LSP-Angola soon. Axé.
Des lieux
04/06/2014
I have been impressing people here in the Midwest with tales of Maringouin culture, which turns out to be fascinating. In my typical fashion, I am captivated by my newest location and want to move here. I will be a denizen of Over-the-Rhine which is partly a small German city, partly the old town of … More Des lieux
En voyage
03/06/2014
The planes that go from Houston to Cincinnatti are of the regional kind, which seems incongruous since the trajectory implies such a great change between cultural worlds. Cincinnatti has a German Bank and a lovely nineteenth century train station called the Dixie Terminal. I went to Houston to go to Cincinnatti. Originally I was to … More En voyage
Og farvel igen
31/05/2014
I am going away for more than a week and I do not intend to post. When I return to Maringouin I will say: Even here, you do not have to suffer. Suffering is a Reeducated requirement, and a requirement in this local culture, but the people who wanted or want you to suffer are … More Og farvel igen
On getting back to what needs to be done
30/05/2014
Now everything is beautiful again and it has to do with pleasure. Or the self-love I lost in Reeducation and have difficulty summoning here. It is not this town that is terrible, although it does not suit me; and it is not academia, although I wish I could have done something more interesting. It is … More On getting back to what needs to be done
Como con el dentista
30/05/2014
I don’t think I will ever know how to untangle these questions, on whether or not I could have liked academia or really did like it … or really did not, yet did not know that tolerating something was not the same as liking it. On living here, however, I do note one thing: part … More Como con el dentista
On autonomy and peace
30/05/2014
I almost never feel autonomous, but I sometimes feel peaceful. Sometimes I can see what autonomy and peace would be like together; they look good. As a younger person I knew neither was meant for me, but I admired them and I was surprised one day long ago when it seemed I had them on … More On autonomy and peace
On enthusiasm
30/05/2014
Someone is President of an organization called Restore Louisiana Now and I am envious — that is the kind of job I want. I think of my law degree and work on globalization and prison industrial complex, or my Near Eastern Studies degree and the active job I would have found in a large, international … More On enthusiasm
I will make a T shirt
30/05/2014
It will say: 1. My father can drive. 2. He can shop, and has always done. 3. He can cook, and has always done. 4. He eats three meals a day more religiously than you or I. 5. No, he does not need “24 hour care.” That was what he arranged for my mother, who … More I will make a T shirt
“I hope you can get back to what needs to be done”
30/05/2014
Someone said this, and it is the correct attitude. In Reeducation it would have been “denial” and inappropriate generally. One should be felled by everything, call in sick, take leave from work, retire. Reeducation believed in opening veins and draining life out slowly. ♦ That is NOT health. But there was so much discussion about … More “I hope you can get back to what needs to be done”
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