« Je veux seulement être qui je suis. » {The original, English version of Caroline’s letter will soon appear on Montaigbakhtinian, but this French version is going first.} En vérité, Mademoiselle, j’ai eu tant de plaisir à broder cet… Read More ›
Freud
Sex & Dogs
At least five stories A few of my Baby Boom generation may recall that one of the less expected and perhaps more titillating aspects of Nancy Friday’s 1972 Secret Garden collection of women’s sexual fantasies was all the… Read More ›
Re-inventing the sabbath
{click for pdf} I The point of this post is to call attention to the possibility and ramifications of observing a weekly sabbath. By this word, lower case, I mean a day of rest in which the “religion” is… Read More ›
Riffs in advance of a too brief vacation
“Having dressed myself up to be a sex object, I went out of my apartment and was looked at as if I were a sex object. And there was something in this looking that made me really uncomfortable. Why could… Read More ›
Ditch the term pathogen
Reblogged from Zeteo: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing {Click for pdf} A short comment, published in the 11 December 2014 issue of Nature and entitled “Ditch the term pathogen,” is the most interesting, thought-provoking piece that I have ever… Read More ›
Fifty thousand spiders in a pot
I would begin by inviting all to the staged reading of The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane, Saturday, 25 October 2014 at 7:30 pm, Dixon Place , 161 Chrystie Street in Manhattan. Show will last 45 minutes and is Free! Click for more… Read More ›
Why Write?
The goal here is to begin making a list of reasons why a specific text might be written (as opposed to, say, why take up the habit or profession of writing). I will appreciate the suggestions of writers and… Read More ›
