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Two Takes on Terror or Resisting Being Terrorized
Sara Krulwich The people with AIDS had very little time left and most were filled with fear. Fear of the disease. Fear of coming out. When someone would actually let me take their picture, it was an act of enormous … Continue reading
What Is Remembered: The Long View
Lorna Finlayson There is no sense in which my great-uncle, who died at the Somme along with hundreds of thousands of others, gave his life for my freedom. He was cannon fodder in a needless imperial war which created fertile … Continue reading
Gravity Levity
Ronald Johnson A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees “Four Orphic Poems & A Song” Newton — it is said — did not show the cause of an apple falling, only the similitude between the apple & the stars. … Continue reading
Sketch as Stretch
I admire his sequencing. Alain de Botton in The Art of Travel provides a lovely set up to his discussion of de Maistre’s Travel around My Bedroom (found in the chapter “On Habit” in the section “Return”) by in the … Continue reading
Contemplating Destinations
It reads like an homage to the gazetteer form. Nowhere is the appeal of the airport more concentrated than in the television screens that hang in rows from the terminal ceilings to announce the departure and arrival of flights, whose … Continue reading
We Are Lucky She Wrote and Not Only Spoke
Death of a Revolutionary By Susan Faludi The New Yorker The ending is about the funeral rites for Shulamith Firestone Firestone was buried, in a traditional Orthodox funeral, in a Long Island cemetery, where her maternal grandparents are interred. Ten … Continue reading
Tumbling Tops and Bottoms
This wee bit of ekphrasis is short. And these two lines from it operate in a way similar to the point at the waist where grain follows grain. Form reflecting description. Glass is your horizon, your world where wood is … Continue reading
Set and Setting: Cognitive Cogitations
A few generalizations… 5.32 Pedagogical situations are sensory. They are also interpersonal. Because they are sensory this makes even learning by oneself interpersonal. Egocentric speech is like a dialogue between the senses. In Vygotsky’s and Luria’s experiments, children placed in … Continue reading
elegance
Diana Vreeland in Allure Fashion is a passing thing — a thing of fancy fantasy, and feeling. Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well-dressed. It’s a quality possessed by certain thoughts and certain animals. […] Elegance … Continue reading
Fire & Darkness
Herb Nabigon and Anne-Marie Mawhiney “Aboriginal Theory: A Cree Medicine Wheel Guide for Healing First Nations” in Turner Social Worker Treatment 4th Edition. Cree elders teach that fire is symbolized in the center circle, opposite the dark side of not … Continue reading