I was wielding my axe ( Read more... )

It's fine to want to rediscover the laws for human life, but how practical it must be to conform to existing ones. We played with the sources of life and lost.

Svetlana sucks lemons across from me ( Read more... )

Moreover, if we openly construct our classroooms around the fact that we are feminist and that the course will occur within a feminist environment, we do not dupe our students into agreeing with us. Rather, we acknowledge how all reality is socially constructed and is, therefore, capable of transformation. In such an atmosphere, we should not ( Read more... )

And surely it is more interesting to belong to one's own time, to share its peculiar vision, catch that flying glimpse of the panorama which no subsequent generation can ever recover
-Nella Larsen from a letter to Carl Van Vechten.

Some people are a sickness on this land ( Read more... )

Poland is full of monuments. We commemorate the past because the past is a fate. We are natural pessimists, believing that what has happened will happen again. Perhaps that is the definition of an optimist: someone who denies the power of the past. The past is not really important here. Here the present does not reaffirm the past but supersedes ( Read more... )

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves. p31 ( Read more... )

But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the past: almost everything good seems located in the past, perhaps that's an illusion, but I feel nostalgic for every era before I was born; and one is freer of modern inhibitions, perhaps because one bears no responsibility for the past, ( Read more... )

I ask fewer questions these days.