This evening my mother and I were looking at the book on her father’s family. She has the book, and I called it up from Hathitrust. On page 3 you can see a picture of their 1300-1659 seat, Holloway Court, in Kent. The family motto was spes alit agricolam. Prior to 1225 there is no … More Thain, thegn, thane
At the top of the list of things I am not going to try to do any more is cutting corners on teaching. I do not like the phrase cut corners anyway, it is one of those Pollyannaish phrases from Home Economics, and I have heard far too much about the importance of doing it … More Coisas que não vou fazer mais
Coldhearted Scientist: “Free writing” is just stewing and will only ruin your thought process unless you have already decided what you are doing. Until such time as your first line comes to you unannounced, and you know what the content of your last paragraph is going to be, you are much better off just meditating … More Un diálogo importantísimo entre expertas
As we know, I am against free writing. I favor recreational or nonacademic writing, not free writing, for practice, and research notes and abstracts, not rambling “prewriting” to gather my thoughts. I became aware of free writing as a requirement too late, and I have never learned to use it — I find it exhausting … More On the origins of the “free writing” cult
On the Value of an Independent Faculty Senate The rhetorical sleight of hand used in the attempt to discredit AAUP principles on academic freedom and tenure as well as to justify the marginalization of faculty senates resembles that used to discredit traditional university education and promote for-profit institutions and MOOCs. As academic blogger Undine indicates … More El texto, escrito, jamás será vencido
I think I could go to the beach here. There is an old hotel where you can stay four nights for the price of three. The price of three is apparently $221 … for which I would get four … whereas two nights at my place in Houston comes to $234 … and in Houston … More Apalachicola and Carrabelle
1/ Today it took me about six hours to read a long article and write a few words in each of three texts I am working on. I was being slow but I like this and not rushing gets me further in the end. I did not put on timers but I was aware of … More Productivity insights du soir. Ten theses.
I learned from Vanessa Nelsen that Creole costumbrista authors putatively intent on demonstrating social realism pulled characters not from reality, but from a historiographical discourse that they themselves had already created. Does Nelsen know that one of the lettered discourses masquerading as reality is the plaçage myth? It is all quite interesting because the way Emily Clark says … More Shocking new facts about Villaverde
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Latin Wave 8, May 2-5. Axé.
