With the animals, it’s the guilt tripping I cannot stand. “If you do not adopt, it will starve?” “If you have adopted, you must keep indoors.” “Why do you not have more toys?” I DO NOT DESERVE TO KEEP AN ANIMAL AND I TOLD EVERYONE SO. I said I did not have money. I said … More Pain
Cable’s Bras-Coupe and Merimee’s Tamango: The Case of the Missing ArmAuthor(s): ROBERT O. STEPHENSSource: The Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 1982, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Fall 1982), pp. 387-405Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26474894 Cable says Bras-Coupé gave himself that name, as a strong arm cut off from his tribe. But in New Orleans people believe he was one-armed, and … More Bras-Coupé
This is good for my piece, “Language and the Entrepreneurial University.” Remember remember. Axé.
I HAVE MORE TO SAY – this is not finished, it got lost For the people who don’t like research writing because ‘you have to find people who have already said what you want to say’ – that’s not quite true. Note here, I cite 5 people in one paragraph, but not just to confirm … More That Post
The debate between them, or between the tomato and the eggplant, is a product of overwork. People should not fall prey to this and “virtue-signal” by saying which one they like best. There should be time for everything. C. says it is the parenting aspect of teaching that is detrimental to her research. I don’t, … More Rant on teaching and research
They are described in Sealsfield, Life in the New World, and Longfellow apparently liked this description–and those of the swamps, and the Attakapas, and the southwest in general. Axé.
Look at these representations. Axé.
“For all the ways in which Latin America, as its intellectuals have pointed out for years, has suffered as the local testingground of U.S. experiments with extranational power, its role in the past and future shaping of U.S. identity narratives remains disturbingly understudied and undertheorized.” Axé.
The weekend was curative – I was exhausted/at the end of my rope – and realized how deep the usual pain actually is – and am now back here suffering. It really makes me wonder about lots of things but in particular about how to turn off the suffering factor in the immediate term. The … More La souffrance
coldhearted scientist وداد 