Scrivener

Not to be deterred, I now have this program working in Windows. It is for novel writing, not academic writing, I can tell fairly well. What do you use it for? Shedding Khawatir uses it for all research but I am not yet sure how. What do you use beyond a word processor, file folders … More Scrivener

Sugar Class

For research today I wanted to cause Scrivener to work and I have failed, although I am convinced it is the answer to many problems. While waiting for it to allegedly compile I looked for music with which I might advertise a course. I want to have this class marketed on the radio, leading in … More Sugar Class

Students of Vichy State

Scene: The Halls. Characters: Professor Zero, in other words one servidora, and Student from Pont-Breaux, Louisiane, speaking English as a second language. Languages: Louisiana French, English; intermediate Spanish. Major: Mathematics. Minors: Computer Science, Spanish. Background: oil, offshore. Professor Zero: So, in your view, why is it that “progressives” do not like Noam Chomsky? Student: They … More Students of Vichy State

Tracking work

The textbook vendors are ramping it up.  I ordered an examination copy of something a few years ago, decided I did not like it, sold it to a peddler once when I was short of cash, decided I would like another after all, applied, and was turned down. On the other hand, the unsolicited examination … More Tracking work

Further false truisms

“You cannot control what happens, but you can control your reaction to it.” I woke up this morning realizing that this was another of the ideologemes created to keep us from analyzing structures or thinking politically. You can develop strategies and learn what are now called “social skills,” and over time you can even change … More Further false truisms

Self-evaluation

There is this moment in the Gulag Archipelago where some prisoners finally arrive at their camp. After days on the miserable train they are actually looking forward to it: when they get there, they will get off the train, and they will see the camp and thus know at last where they were be living, bad … More Self-evaluation

Dansk litteraturvidenskab. Le mardi gras acadien.

Holberg, Brorson, Baggesen, Oehlenschläger. There are many other authors and more attractive ones, but if you study seriously you must also know famous people like this. I was always impressed with Steen Steensen Blicher because he wrote in jysk as well as Danish, making Jutland dialect a literary language, and you could just feel the … More Dansk litteraturvidenskab. Le mardi gras acadien.

Russians. The Socialist Songbook. Spain. Serrano Plaja. Vallejo.

This is one of the films I found, trying to discover what World II looked like. In it the Soviets plan to invade Berlin and then do so. It is an amazing piece of photography and it causes your eyes to have experiences such as approach the Brandenburg Gate with the Red Army. It is … More Russians. The Socialist Songbook. Spain. Serrano Plaja. Vallejo.