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The Past is Not Immutable
Two views with slightly different valences… Walter Benjamin: The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will … Continue reading
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Arriving and Leaving: the Exchange
The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy: Opening the American Mind (1988) “”Documented/Undocumented” Guillermo Gómez-Peña What strikes me is that a historically situated subject position is rhetorically conveyed in an identificatory prose, the reader is seduced to be on side: Our … Continue reading
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TIME EMIT TIME EMIT
The anagram and palindrome was kindly pointed out to me and it has stuck. I bring it to an appreciation of the transit of water through lakes. For example, Lake St. Clair: Water retention time in the lake is seven … Continue reading
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Tasting truth: three transcriptions
A taste for truth is not necessarily a taste for non fiction. FL 14.01.07 Gadamer p. 251 Fontina Biographical Companion to Modern Thought Gadamer represents understanding not so much as a methodical act of reconstruction of a text, event or … Continue reading
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No, more pipelines
Note the comma placement. Transcription: [in ink] | < [centred over "more"] [in pencil] No, more pipelines Giving at St. Mikes philanthropy who gives what when to whom who gets acknowledged . * * * * * * * I … Continue reading
Goal Displacement | Problem Displacement
Cyphert, Frederick R.; Gant, Walter L. “The Delphi Technique: A Tool for Collecting Opinions in Teacher Education” [1969] Dr. Cypher was Dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry Memorial School of Education and Dr. Gant was Director of the Department … Continue reading
Provenance Marking Inventions
Dr. Hilary Green @HilaryGreen77 Associate Professor, University of Alabama. Author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South (2016). via Julian Chambliss @JulianChambliss #Professor @MichiganStateu #BlackImaginary Exploring #Digital, #Comics, #Cities, & #Culture. #AssemblingtheMCU #CitiesImagined via Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz … Continue reading
Trolling the Troll
I keep stumbling across references to the President of the United States in the Apple Dictionary (A lexicographer’s gem) : “comity” (Definition #2) [mass noun] courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others: a show of public comity in the White House. … Continue reading
Cited for UnSpeakable Speech Acts
Juvrianto Chrissunday Jakob, English Lecturer, An English Enthusiast and Coffee Lover (https://medium.com/@markriand) < I learnt today about https://medium.com (a modest payment to view the articles housed there $5 per month as of April 20, 2020). I came across this fellow … Continue reading
Quid Pro Quo Quandary
The problem with fundamentalists, monotheist or not, is their intolerance of the unbeliever. The problem of unbelievers is that intolerance on the part of the faithful who do not abide by the precepts of their faith to practice tolerance. Which … Continue reading