César Vallejo’s 120th birthday was this year. Above is his Google Doodle. Here is a Chaucerian grading scale and here is one based on Beckett. I will have to create one out of Vallejo quotations. A Mi metro está midiendo ya dos metros mis husesos concuerdan en género y en número y el verbo encarnado … More Grading scales by poets
1. Moved out at 16, worked full time the last two years of high school, living in an apartment with roommates. Does not feel $30,000 per annum for a hard job is bad pay. 2. Working as a stocker at Office Depot, which he calls “a place of blood, sweat and cigarettes.” Invents and executes … More Students of iron
The students say the most difficult subjects are foreign languages and math but I always felt the opposite. Those were the courses I would pick up to gather more credit hours of A without expending too much effort. This was because all you had to do was acquire a system and practice using it. There … More What is the most difficult subject?
I think the reason you are to publish your revised dissertation as a book is to liberate it from the committee. Also, while you are doing this you see the shape of the next book come into view. I think this is a good plan generally. This project I have is not the next book … More Four ghostly monsters
We did not make tenure for the quality of our research or our teaching in the major and beyond, but by placating the instructors and the freshmen in language teaching and by doing a great deal of very effective service. We do not imagine this — it is objectively demonstrable and the people who did … More Here, again, is why these classes are so traumatic
I always said my stalled projects had to do with Reeducation tout court and they did but Reeducation, including get-it-done academic advice which is an aspect of it, also obscured what were straight-up research problems, that could have been treated as such. The background to the fragmentation of research I experience now was laid out … More El tres
On the question of how college professors get alienated from their work I do have one really simple answer, they do not have a safe space in which to do it. I just got one, after not having had one since graduate school except for a period of about two years. During that safe period … More El dos
The trap in which I have lain is multi-pronged although all roads lead to Rome. Let us see: IN LIFE IN GENERAL – PROBLEM A: the idea that the slightest misstep will bring down extreme violence / exile / death, and the knowledge that one must be constantly on guard about these missteps since the … More El uno
Hattie is the one who really found this. Axé.
One of my great frustrations in life is with people who tell me I am being “perfectionistic” if I find any flaws in any work I do. I could not disagree more because I do not believe Leonardo da Vinci just had his work spring out of his head spontaneously. You have to keep zigzagging … More Study questions and paper topics, or, Santa Sangre
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