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Sunday, December 31, 2006

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Philadelphia was nice, if a bit cold. A shame, given that this was one MLA – with Marjorie Perloff as president, much of the big show was ge...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

out to lunch

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I'm off the Philadelphia later today, where I'll be spending most of my time in an overcrowded hotel room talking to people who'...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Xmas Cheer (?)

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One of the welcome gifts to cross my threshold this holiday was this , the 4-volume Grove Press Centenary edition of Samuel Beckett. I'v...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Richard Thompson Starring as Henry the Human Fly

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One of the great watersheds of late 20th-century pop music, so far as I’m concerned, came in 1970 or so, when Richard Thompson sold his gold...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Light Reading

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I’m by no means on my deathbed, but I’ve been operating at a lot less than 100%, that’s for sure. Reading, as I noted, has become somewhat s...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

& the diagnosis is

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(drumroll...) the Illness Formerly Known As Walking [ or in this case pretty much lying down all the time & shuffling around a little bi...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

And here's

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[ Man Ray, Marcel Proust on his Deathbed ] how I'm feeling right now, in the grips of some flu-like something or other.
Friday, December 08, 2006

but wait...

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Okay, I really should be finishing grading a stack of finals on the synoptic gospels & John – but I can't resist drawing the interes...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Finally, some pleasure

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So as I kinda expected, Bob Archambeau has weighed in on pleasure & difficulty, with a rather detailed (& illustrated) “story thus ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Adam’s McRib

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I can help feeling there’s been a certain slippage in the recent discussion of pleasure among Josh Corey , Eric Selinger , & YVT, attrib...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Make Mine Spicy, Please

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Two of my favorite blogspherians, Josh Corey & Eric Selinger, have started a discussion on an old subject – pleasure & difficulty in...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Placeholder

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It's been a pretty frantic week – the holiday, family in town, grading essays, watching as the wee little cough I'd had for a week m...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Bad Joyce

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Ray Davis comments of Ulysses ’s 18 stylistic menu-choices, “I wonder if fear of stylistic tinnitus is why goofy "Eumaeus" and ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Crucified Smurfs

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It's hard to avoid Fernando Botero's paintings down here in South Florida. The Colombian artist's pudgy figures are enormously p...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

arseburn

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There are only two blogs I read that address academic affairs in anything more than a tangential way – Michael Bérubé's and University ...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Milton in Print, Inertially

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Michael Bérubé, in this suspiciously like that other regular-guy-with-a-French-surname Bob Archambeau, has taken to posting his conference p...
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Ulysses & me

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For some reason or another, it’s been a long week, & a long (but nice) weekend following. A couple nights ago, deathly tired of grading ...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

afterglow

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So the whole exhausting business of the mid-term elections is over, & a substantial portion of the electorate sems to have decided that ...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Various ('stay the course' edition)

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In the lovely 22 October quotation from Our Leader, "Listen, it's never been 'stay the course,'" belied as any number ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

It's not sending me to the bookshelf just yet, but...

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Don't miss this – the best meditation on reading (Sir) Walter Scott's poetry I've very encountered. The money line: "There...
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