From an interview with James Baldwin, just after the death of Dr. King: Baldwin: It is not the black people who have to cool it, because they won’t. Interviewer: Aren’t they the ones getting hurt the most, though? Baldwin: That would depend on point of view. You know, I’m not at all sure that we are […]
Read More BaltimoreI won’t be a snob about seasickness anymore. They told us we might get seasick while the boat was tied up. I only get seasick when I ride the Star Wars ride at Disney World more than two times in a row, so I figured I was fine. (For the record, I rode four times […]
Read More ReadingIf Americans have so little sense of nuances, it isn’t that they’re incapable of grasping them– after all, American reality itself is sufficiently nuanced– but that they would be troubled by them. To accept nuance is to accept ambiguity of judgment, argument, and hesitation; such complex situations force you to think. They want to lead […]
Read More Annotated Bibliography: French slop, Italian despair, and So Ends the Play.
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