http://shanghaikiteboarding.com/community/смотреть-городской-доктор-kasaba-doktoru-28-серия-н/ And mostly without internet. A shame, because as always when you are on the road there is so much that could be recorded. I’m writing this from Clarksdale, one of the Delta Blues hotspots. I’ve long dreamed of traveling through here, and it’s happening, though like most things it’s happening too fast. This is excellent […]
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Traveling.
16-Mar-11More Crumpled Press Press.
03-Feb-11Sidhaulī A nice little piece by Susannah Black about the Crumpled Press, publisher of the Staten Island book. “Trading efficiency for loveliness.”
Changing Concepts.
01-Feb-11Click for a closer look. Honor, like other personal concepts, adapts to a more economic conception of man, and is mostly subsumed in the word professionalism. From Google’s interesting ngram viewer.
In the Valley of the Shmoon.
28-Jan-11Came across this unintelligible passage in Kerouac’s journals: There is a dynamic philosophy behind the Progress of the 20th century, but we need to reach the depths of a Static Metaphysical Admission – a Manifesto of Confessions – as well, or the dynamics will just explode out of control like Kafka’s penal machine. Perhaps something […]
On the value of teachers.
21-Dec-10From Sullivan: A teacher one standard deviation above the mean effectiveness annually generates marginal gains of over $400,000 in present value of student future earnings with a class size of 20 and proportionately higher with larger class sizes. Alternatively, replacing the bottom 5-8 percent of teachers with average teachers could move the U.S. near the […]
Staten Island.
28-Jul-10The book is stalled a bit, as we’re looking for the right paper for the edition, which needs a 19th c. feel; the papers looked a bit modern and slick and had to be changed. I’ll keep you updated.
Gone Latin-speakin’…
17-Jul-10Will probably be out of touch for awhile, as I’ve gone off to rusticate.
On Abraham.
13-Jul-10I’ve been wanting to write an essay about Abraham for awhile, and I’m not sure I put the essay below together in quite the way I wanted to, but the story of God demanding sin from us fascinates me. It fascinated Jung too, who said he saw the evidence of this in his patients, and […]
The Book.
21-May-10You can pre-order the Staten Island book now. I am excited by it; it looks to be a thing of beauty. The illustrations by Lesley Chen are extraordinary. I’m told I’ve pre-sold three copies, thereby exceeding all expectations. Selling books reminds me of Thoreau’s printing of a thousand copies of his first book – which […]
Jung.
27-Apr-10“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung.