Wilmoth Houdini
14/08/2013
Axé.
Facebook is refusing to post
14/08/2013
Fíjense en lo que dice Ricardo Palma: “The principal cause of the great defeat is that the majority of Peru is composed of that wretched and degraded race that we once attempted to dignify and ennoble. The Indian lacks patriotic sense; he is born enemy of the white and of the man of the coast. … More Facebook is refusing to post
y quién dijo que escribir blogs no era investigación
13/08/2013
Now there is a new Vallejo blog. And a book I did not know of, Pedro Granados, Poéticas y utopías en la poesía de César Vallejo [PhD Thesis, Boston University, 2003] (Lima: PUCP Fondo editorial, 2004). Todo esto investigaremos. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Aterrizaje en Pasto
12/08/2013
Hattie has shown me that you can see video from the cockpit of flights landing, and I have learned I would like to be a pilot. Here is video of the two most fascinating landings I have made, in Pasto, Colombia, and La Paz, Bolivia. The altitude of this last airport is over 13,000 feet. There … More Aterrizaje en Pasto
A Dadaist party invitation
12/08/2013
I actually received this. “Where was I when two of the greatest Leos in the history of Leos battled it out in Freetown for the month of August?” That’s what you’ll ask yourself as you toss in bed 2 weeks from now, the anxiety and butt-hurt creeping in. Don’t let this happen. Be there. We … More A Dadaist party invitation
Journals I would like to subscribe to
12/08/2013
Afro-Hispanic Review Luso-Brazilian Review Raritan …and there are more, and there are books I would like to buy. Alternatively, the library could have holdings. But I cannot do it all, as we must also pay for travel to conferences. I used to Do It All, Anyway, but that ended in debt. And this is the … More Journals I would like to subscribe to
El sur
12/08/2013
El Sur from Alejandro Abramovich. Axé.
Sentences
12/08/2013
I have written an essay for my MOOC that is half the maximum length and that took no thought or deep reading. This is because I am not taking the MOOC terribly seriously, yet I want to experience it. I am working for a C. Therefore I should not be posting the piece, but I … More Sentences
Liste de lectures … en progrès … and constantly updating
10/08/2013
Unbelievably, I now have an official creative writing student and I am starting to compile a list of readings, in an attempt to begin answering the question, who and what taught me to write my sentences? Essay, chronicle, memoir ♦ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo ♦ Joan Didion ♦ Mariano José de Larra ♦ Michel de Montaigne, … More Liste de lectures … en progrès … and constantly updating
School
10/08/2013
…it is going to start and we will meet many more students resembling our former students, people who may or may not use their degrees directly in their future jobs but who will: ♦ discover they can work white collar ♦ discover that they enjoy the humanities ♦ learn that if they go down to … More School
