March 2011
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do not hurry; do not rest
I am reading some Kant today; I haven’t read him in years. He is still very precise.
Later this month I am giving a brief conference paper in Texas on Kafka and an internet cartoon I don’t care to name. It will be very grad school-ish, but also an instructive experience, as I enjoy speaking in public and always feel like I’m exercising muscles I actually have when I am doing it....
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antarctica obsession
I aspire to be obsessed with Antarctica, though I haven’t had the time to develop this fixation into a neurosis. Give me time. Here is what I’m thinking: Antarctica isn’t a place; it’s a representation. For instance, scientists intrigued by the problem of understanding pre-historic climate change and the course of earth’s evolving temperature and weather patterns look...
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Baby’s Breath—Bill Callahan
Sometimes...
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Coinage
Last night at Lyle’s, I saw things everyone has seen:
One woman was still wearing a neon green wig. One man was wearing a bathrobe. A tall, muscular man who looked too confident to be getting handsy with a woman in a tight sweater was getting handsy with a woman in a tight sweater. A woman said, “I am 37 years old.” Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was drunkenly concluded to be,...
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Fawn—Tom Waits
The violin in this song...
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Virtual Ignorance
A lot of what I’m about to say is probably my fault. Forgive me. Anyway, Nietzsche remarks that a true teacher at heart takes all things seriously only with regard to his students, including himself. Predictably, Nietzsche used macho pronouns. I’ve always thought (“always” in the rhetorical sense) that perhaps Nietzsche meant that a true teacher is able and willing to take...
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