In life, like love, or the shape of a story itself, time is fast and slow at once, compressed and expanded; it is never as simple or singular as a minute is long.
A Marxist Education – Wayne Au
The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.
Whereas the medievals associated the “combined object of scent” with the capacity for rational discernment—which implies a kind of restraint—Tony Kushner links it to a sense of excess via sexuality.
If a governess frolics and there is no elderly gentleman to witness it . . . ?
I do sometimes feel that reading and writing is a way of preparing oneself [for death], as much as a person can be prepared.
Ma Bo’le’s Second Life – Xiao Hong
The reader will have to decide if it is ok to do the wrong thing for the right reason or the right thing for the wrong reason or the right thing for the right reason or the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
Graffiti In The Woods: Searching For Definitions of Jewish Space
We were holding our seder in a Jerusalem that was very much part of chol, though also part of the holy—we were at the table, in my apartment, in the city of Jerusalem, it felt different than when we do the same thing in Cleveland. Yet, we still long each year, for the transcendent Jerusalem.
I submit that playing along once in a while with games like Olafsson’s, games about the game of fiction, can be a useful reminder of how fiction works on us.
Turning Back: On Cristina Rivera Garza’s THE ILIAC CREST
Garza’s boldest choice in the novel was to make her narrator the patriarchy. That is, his behavior is marked by secrecy, without intuition, his actions with women defined by received knowledge.
It’s fun to see people talk about revolution seriously, because they can’t imagine anything else anymore and it’s starting to enter the consciousness.