“Si j’étais ruisseau, ou bien touriste, vous m’aimeriez tous, comme on aime les artistes,” dit Vincent par téléphone. “Writing is a foreign language,” he said. “The best way to spell is in Phrench.” That took place in the twentieth century but perhaps I am a nineteenth century man. I am clearly a petit bourgeois or … More Si j’étais ruisseau, ou bien touriste
It seems to me so far that the current reverb exercise, in which one reflects each day, intends to foster creative activity. The implicit assumption that one does not already appreciate sunsets and make things bores me a little. I feel asked to prove once again that I can do artistic things and enjoy walks … More On Creativity (A Contrarian View)
This group apparently has a song, on this album, called “Fict or Faction,” and I am looking for it. Axé.
When dawn, wearing golden sandals, awoke me, I began to crawl, burning, shivering, to my uncurtained window; Migrating birds streamed over the dark sea. Who can quench the ingenious fires of cruelty? I was dreaming of white-fetlocked horses conferring in a meadow When dawn, wearing golden sandals, awoke me. On my stopped loom, … More Fragments
Axé.
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, … More Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”
Y, desgraciadamente, el dolor crece en el mundo a cada rato, crece a treinta minutos por segundo, paso a paso, y la naturaleza del dolor, es el dolor dos veces y la condición del martirio, carnívora, voraz, es el dolor dos veces y la función de la yerba purísima, el dolor dos veces y el … More Los nueve monstruos
He is excellent. Read his open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany. • The best way for people to be prepared for the inevitable shock of change is to be as broadly educated as possible, because today’s backwater is often tomorrow’s hot field. And interdisciplinary research, … More Gregory Petsko
Student: Do the Christs in Brazilian churches sport as much blood as the Christs in Mexican churches? Professor Zero: Yes. Student: That is amazing. Professor Zero: Why? Italian Christs have a great deal of blood as well. Bloodiness is a major characteristic of the Mediterranean and Mediterranean based Christ. Student: How marvelous! Professor Zero: It … More In Catholic Culture
I am hardly writing here, because I am writing a novel. I have sent pieces of it to Boulevard, Evergreen Review, Narrative, and Southwestern Review. You can see I am serious. One of our major programs is being cut. That means dismissal of all faculty including tenured faculty. Notice was given Monday. I am looking … More Autumn
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