Things Need to Be What They Are
Please go read Adam Daniel and Chad Wellmon’s piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “The University Run Amok!” Daniel and Wellmon get it. In spades and stinging sunshine. As Stanley Fish and...
View ArticleSo Karen, Why Did it Take You So Long to Finish Book Three?
Because it’s always three o’clock? Sartre wrote in La Nausée that “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” OK, he wrote it in French, but the point still stands....
View ArticleTeachItGlobal When Universities Aren’t Teaching It At All
Awhile back, in response to the running tragedy of universities destroying their humanities programs, I asked: So, what would happen if humanities scholars offered structured private classes in...
View ArticleA Scattering of March
A scattering of March social media posts for the convenience and amusement of visitors to my humble blog. Girl with Rabbits by Frederick Stuart Church (1886) Ostara. Renewal. Wouldn’t it be a perfect...
View ArticleA Showering of April
A showering of April social media posts for the convenience and amusement of visitors to my humble blog. Photo credit: Nana @nn-frame18 To cap off National Library Week. The Enemy Glory trilogy is...
View ArticleThree for Beltane
Fairy Tales, First Edition(Chicago: Stanton and Van Vliet Co., 1918). Compiled by Rose Allyn. Illustrated by G. M. Burd and Violet Moore Higgins. May 7, 2020 Solitaries. Madness. (See previous posts.)...
View ArticleThree Moons for June
Three moon-ridden social media posts for the convenience and amusement of visitors to my humble blog. June 29, 2020 Moon waning over early morning. It is wholly past. Even its light is backward, a...
View ArticleEquinox
Autumn, from the series The Four Seasons, by David Teniers de Jonge (circa 1644) If anyone has issues with me posting a painting that was “appropriated” by a British museum (The National Gallery) from...
View ArticleA Most Pleasant Late Solstice Season Surprise
Well, this is unlooked for – and almost missed. I just learned that Independent Book Review included The Maenad’s God in its list of best books of 2022. For a late-in-the-year release from a quiet...
View ArticleLes trois Québécois
Les trois Québécois: le froid, Le Bonhomme, et la Grand-mère du Monde The three Québécois: the cold, Le Bonhomme, and the Grandmother of the World A trio of encounters in the Great White North....
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