The purpose of this short text is to call attention to the potential value of an age-old practice which has fallen out of favor: copying. I am not referring to plagiarism (which seems not to have fallen out of… Read More ›
Shakespeare
My evening with Marta
A few notes on sexuality in the workplace How many hours of my life have I spent in offices? Roughly 2,000 a year times more than 30 rough years. That’s not only a lot of empty or trivial… Read More ›
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long Midsummer Night’s Dream There comes a point in some vigorous… Read More ›
The Practice of Philosophy
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 November 2013 [click for pdf] A friend told me that every morning upon waking she meditates for an hour. My first reaction to this news was not positive. First thing in the morning nothing has yet… Read More ›
A dream is the fulfillment of a wish
LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS August 2013 [click for pdf] Carolyn has written me again, to my great pleasure, and I do not think she needs further introduction to Montaigbakhtinian readers. Let me just copy her words as if this were… Read More ›
The Bravest Grope a Little
LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS III October 2012 Not knowing where I’m going, I make another list. This one has five items, or points, like a star. (1) There is an elderly woman who, while or although suffering from Alzheimer’s, spends… Read More ›
Words
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 June 2012 At a book promotion event, the writer Mikhail Shishkin told a little story about how he became a writer. He was 15, and in love for the first time. He went to tell his love… Read More ›
