Vichy State University is so openly crooked it is hard to believe. Here is Raymond Seed in case you do not trust Van Heerden. Note that Voyiadjis and Dokka were elite professors. Bassiouni is retiring with honors and Ruffner has escaped to Georgia. By Jan. 5, 2006, less than five months after the deadly flooding … More The Ivor Situation
I spent today dealing with my honor society problem. I mean all day. Realizing I was going to say no, figuring out how, doing it, recovering from it. This is not efficient — especially because the reason I had as much difficulty was that I was so tired, and now I am more tired, and … More In which I take a great and scary risk, succeed, and improve although I am still unsettled, and exhausted, and worried since it is all I got done.
Look at this book by an English traveler concerned to prove the backwardness of Spain. It is extremely interesting. Axé.
La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños, que quiebra al niño, en pájaros iguales, y al pájaro, después en huevecillos; la cólera del pobre tiene un aceite contra dos vinagres. La cólera que al árbol quiebra en hojas, a la hoja en botones desiguales y al botón, en ranuras telescópicas; la cólera del pobre … More Explicar…
A book by Michael Hanchard has apparently now been listed in Brazil as one of the top 10 on racism, but he got into all this trouble there earlier because of it. He was really trashed by Brazilian scholars, that weak-minded lackey of the white elites Peter Fry, and the unsophisticated and supercilious pseudo-scholar Loïc Wacquant. John … More Hypothesis
From 1912, when he was 22. The improbable, or all too probable title is “The last excursion of a tuberculosis patient, through the city, by electric tram.” O último passeio de um tuberculoso, pela cidade, de bonde. dos salões abertos saem pianos enxotados a abanar suas caudas há luzes que brilham do farol lugar-nenhum há … More Oswald de Andrade’s first poem
We are to economize on time, protect time, save time, conserve time, and work quickly but less is said about using time. I stayed up late last night writing a draft that I had to be in an altered state of sorts to write because in order to write it, I was going to have to … More Sobre el tiempo
São Paulo! comoção da minha vida… Os meus amores são flores feitas de original… Arlequinal!… Traje de losangos… Cinza e Ouro… Luz e bruma… Forno e inverno morno… Elegâncias sutis sem escândalos, sem ciúmes… Perfumes de Paria… Arys! Bofetadas líricas no Trianon… Algodoal! São Paulo! comoção de minha vida… Galicismo a berrar nos desertos da … More In which São Paulo is a “Gallicism bellowing in the deserts of America”
Here is some poetry of an actual Fascist, very circumspect. Then there is noucentisme, Eugeni d’Ors’ movement, which is really quite strange, and there had been regenerationism as well. I have just read a fairly current Spanish novel I believe to be about memory but think is about evasion. It has touches of Vargas Llosa, Borges and … More Conservative modernism, and conservative modernity
I have never been able to stand this man and I am so glad the Daily Reveille recommends standing up to him. “I was impressed with the commitment of everyone in the room to do what’s right for LSU,” Griffin said. “We all believe there are wonderful ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness through technology. I … More William Jenkins
