The issue, we decided last night, was finding a technology whereby to make life in Maringouin consistently bearable enough so as to be able to consistently work. The problem is the amount of energy that goes toward making things bearable, and the fact that efforts in this regard do not produce a reliable enough result. … More Ce que je ferai / White Rabbit
The energy is just bad in Maringouin, there is no escaping it. This is why people who know what is good for them are only here during the week, when they have to be at work. My friend says the quality of the energy has to do with all of the enmeshed relationships, which make … More La vérité
I saw Mistérios de Lisboa knowing nothing of the author or the director and I was captivated. You can Google it to discover its official meaning but I was captivated by the Portuguese, spoken as I heard it as a child, and the gestures, that I know from old fashioned people in northern Brazil. It … More Raúl Ruiz
This blog got almost 2,000 hits yesterday and it has had 1,300 today so far. Normally it only has about 150 and I think the most it ever got was 500 or so, one day last year. I remember when it became normal to get over 100 hits. Have I suddenly jumped? Will it become … More Is it a trend?
Really I have been justifying my anti-pornography, anti-sadomasochism attitude via Gail Dines. These things are part of mainstream fashion now because they have been sold and not because we have been liberated to do what we really want. The view of women constructed by the pornography industry does not only affect wives and girlfriends, but … More Contradictory … but contains face exercises, important
Una mirada se aproxima a un deslinde de líneas verticales, mas carece de la certeza del acero en la cuchilla y del placer que circuye al agua fresca en el canto de las piedras; se aleja sofocada de la experiencia diaria e inventa en el balcón un pasadizo. Percibe, fraudulenta, la perenne virtud de un … More La luz 2
This comment on the Christian fundamentalist idea of generational curses and what to do about them explains yet another undiscovered piece of the strange and highly destructive psychotherapy I went through. The therapist, as I eventually discovered and comprehended, was a true believer in ACOA, Al-Anon, and other 12 step theories according to which, if … More On generational curses
Noche que no difiere de la noche sino en el filo de la luz que deja la cortina al separarse de la ventana abierta en breves ráfagas. Noche cerrada afuera y silenciosa. Las húmedas tinieblas solapadas por la humedad graciosa del verano forman la habitación, la desfiguran. O acaso la vista cansada instrumente su danza … More La luz 1
1. I repeat. And I cannot believe how many people make this mistake, which even I have always been smart enough not to make. Do not speak poorly of faculty to other faculty. You do not know who is friends with whom, or who may owe favors to whom. You also may not realize which … More More advice to new and prospective new faculty.
So far today I have almost 1,500 hits on this blog, a number I never get, evidently because I mentioned a Hollywood movie and pornography in the same post. I am now attempting to drive my hit count up by declaring myself a fetishist. The blogger Clarissa says she is a masochist and by the … More I am a fetishist.
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