Sin entrar en detalles: el amor es cobrizo, pues cobrizo es su centro, ese que se adivina, y mucho más su fondo… El fondo entarascado… el fondo que palpita… Ahí donde las fuerzas del placer y el cariño habrán de florecer sea como sea o como usted prefiera En cambio, o por descuento, la amistad … More El amor es cobrizo
This is my eighth day of not being depressed. I was depressed from 10/X/1991 through 16/VIII/2013, which is just under 22 years. Axé.
Axé.
Six-hand, seven-hand, eight-hand bunch! I have harvested bananas from my trees this afternoon, Cuban bananas in proliferation, in six-hand, seven-hand, and eight-hand bunches. This is literally true. Figuratively now, come mister tally-man, tally me banana. We have to reform our syllabi at this late date due to late directives from the dean, and I will … More Come, mister tally-man, tally me banana
After spending the rest of it at the beach. Axé.
I need an abstract and a title. I may do something about Latin American and Latin Americanists’ exceptionalism on the issue of race. Research advances slowly because everybody is stuck in some eddy fighting it out over who is more and who is less “racist,” or exactly how dark one has to be to be considered … More LASA 2014
“The United States is not a nation of black and white people,” Mr. Murray wrote. “Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.” America, he maintained, “even in its most rigidly segregated precincts,” was a “nation of multicolored people,” or Omni-Americans: “part Yankee, part backwoodsman … More Albert Murray
But slowly I realized what the academy really is–v. what it claims to be such that I had mistakenly thought it was a less racist and sexist career path: a neoliberal corporation looking for the most docile workers (i.e. not ‘abrasive’, selfishly careerist, invested in benefiting from structural inequality and reproducing it–often unconsciously, for reasons … More Why I am not a liberal, reason #99
I am on hiatus from my paper since I have a full draft and it is sitting. I also have other dull tasks to accomplish this week, so I am not allowing myself to start on my other paper. But in preparation for further work on both, I am working on Denise Ferreira da Silva. … More Transcendental Poesis
In solidarity with my new writing student I should assign myself reworking of my most recently abandoned novel manuscript. These are the first and last sections. 1. Heaven How many roads lead to Heaven? If you trip on the bridge, do you fall? Had some event marked Una, did a single moment fix her to … More [Your face before dawn]
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