In December or January I may go here. It is a long drive but it is still a modest proposal monetarily, and a major adventure. If the weather turned terrible, I could take refuge in the eccentric towns of Terlingua and Marathon. I would hike in the daytime and write, and read or talk to … More Clear western light
The atmosphere in Jorge Isaacs’ novel María is truly right wing. We know he was a conservative, and that the novel is set on a plantation, but I had not read it since spending some time every week for several years chatting with some well-heeled conservative Christians and beginning to understand the gestalt of their … More María
I have to start participating in Thanksgiving now as opposed to fantasize about things I should not buy tomorrow but look at this person and her dress. I should stop giving companies free advertising but I did not know about KD dancewear and it appears to be good. I am having to redesign myself since … More New Look
The theory of this weblog is to remake oneself from the ground up and on that theory I am looking at job ads. Here, oddly, is one for which I am qualified, based on what I have become. I would reboot entirely, in a different key, and the current book project would work very well … More Du travail
This is apparently the first 35 mm film ever shot, going by cable car to the Ferry Building four days before the earthquake. I love cities. Axé.
These are the Dansko Harper in oiled black. I bought them this afternoon, so I am grateful. They are amazingly comfortable and they make me feel competent. This semester I have acquired more shoes at once than ever before, because due to this foot problem I developed all my former shoes had to go. I … More Merci
I like a calm rhythm and to be getting somewhere, or at least getting the chance to do something right. Do you have this in your job? I have had it in some jobs, but this one is like working on an assembly line that is also an obstacle course where, moreover, the ceiling is … More Is it within your power to make a part of your work day satisfying?
I think the attitude that is going out of style is the one defined by military mores. That view of ‘human nature’ is that it is raw material, out of which something can be shaped, drawn and/or crystallized. The contemporary view is the opposite one. According to this, we are all born with wonderfully perfect, … More On the current culture, this comment is fascinating
My exchange student is going to New York for Thanksgiving. When she gets into Manhattan she will go to her friend’s house on the A train. I am excited about this: stepping out of LaGuardia, jumping on that Port Authority bus, taking the A train uptown. Axé.
It is in fact as it should be that at your new school, the sophomore courses you taught two years ago are being taught as senior seminars. Initially my horror was not about this, it was about the fact that the upper division courses I was suddenly teaching were courses I had taken from people … More Good, actually brilliant advice to new faculty #3
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