Reading Spain 2008-03-05 19:20:07 One of the things that my students consistently get stressed out over is reading poetry. It seems that poetry intimidates many students, and I’ve found that avoidance is a common response to this...
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Poetry and Politics 2008-03-02 08:21:07 W. H. Auden wrote poetry at a very exciting time in the history of English literature. Modernism was sweeping through the arts, demanding that art be made for its own sake, and not merely to...
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My Life in Six Words 2008-02-28 07:38:14 I was tagged by two of my favorite bloggers, Pinhole and silken, for a meme. It’s a six word memoir, inspired by Hemingway, who once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. He...
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A Curiously In-between Existence (The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 3) 2008-02-25 03:08:53 Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walked Through Time moves from the earth, to the animals, and finally to humans. In his walk through the Grand Canyon in the 1960s, this is how Flecther made sense of...
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Dynamic Rhythms (The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 2) 2008-02-19 20:22:37 Colin Fletcher’s The Man Who Walks Through Time begins with a long consideration of the rhythm of the rocks. He discovers, on his trip afoot through the Grand Canyon, that the earth isn’t a...
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The Text 2008-03-11 00:13:50 In my previous post, I talked about how one might approach a poem, using W. H. Auden’s “Spain” as a sample for reading. Malcolm Campbell raised a question in his comments about how I go about, in...
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Are You Fluent in the Language if You Don’t Know What a Plunger is Called? 2008-03-17 05:20:31 Language learning and translation have long been of interest to me, especially since I have spent all of my adult life trying to learn Chinese. It’s particularly in the forefront of my mind right...
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On Oedipus and Hamlet 2008-03-20 09:29:19 It has become rather commonplace to read Hamlet
as, at least in part, a tale of a boy with an Oedipus complex. There have been many versions of the play that use this reading as a foundation for the...
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Gender Reversal 2008-03-25 07:38:31 Out he walked, dressed in silk scarves, a skirt, and with a very thick layer of makeup. His voice, when he spoke, was in an affected falsetto, with a matching girlish giggle. He shook his hips,...
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I’ve Been Deceived 2008-03-30 10:27:42 From my recent posts, it’s probably obvious that the theatre has been on my mind a lot lately. You might call it feeding an obsession, but I have also attended several plays in recent weeks, and...
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Three Gems Found Via Blogrush 2008-04-03 22:15:32 I first came across Blogrush (see widget to the right) at Pinhole’s site, and I signed up there as a way to try to generate a little traffic to my blog. It’s been moderately successful in driving a...
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Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom 2008-04-08 21:39:44 About 10 days ago in my Chinese class, my teacher asked me to describe the difference between three words:
知识 学问 智慧
zhi shi xue wen zhi...
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Technical Difficulties... 2008-04-17 10:42:48 Dear Reader,
You aren’t being ignored, any of you who might have stopped in to read or comment here in the past few days.
But, I am having trouble getting in to view my blog myself, weird as that...
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Intersections in Reading 2008-04-22 01:33:42 I usually read several books at a time, and I always love it when the various books I am reading intersect in my experiences with them. Those intersections in my mind are rarely as interesting as...
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An Agenda 2008-04-30 05:46:43 I am currently spending several months in China doing some language studies. Everywhere you go, the talk is the Olympics. I was asked to write a short essay for class about the Olympics, I hear...
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The Meru Project and Anna Wierzbicka 2008-05-05 21:12:56 It has been several years — at least 6 or 7 — since I attended a lecture by Australian-based linguist Anna Wierzbicka. It turned out to be a very useful lecture at the time, as I was preparing some...
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The Purpose of Life 2008-05-13 17:56:07 Last week while I was in Shanghai, a friend told me one day that she received news at her office that someone had committed suicide by jumping from the highest floor of a shopping center near my...
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One Summer, a Thousand Days 2008-05-17 18:36:42 One Summer
, a Thousand
Days. It’s a great title for an excellent collection of poetry.
I found Charles Albano’s haiku collection when I was searching online specifically for collections of...
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Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome 2008-05-22 09:08:44 Heiner Müller is not a playwright for the faint of heart. His work can be difficult, and it is always provocative. That’s why I was very intrigued to hear that his Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome: A...
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Hamletmachine 2008-05-31 18:19:47 Finally.
I finally got to see a live performance of a Heiner Müller play last night, right here in Singapore.
Hameltmachine was produced by the Theatre Training and Research Programme, directed by...
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The Dawn of Understanding 2008-06-07 09:30:49 Acquisition of knowledge can happen quickly and sometimes almost effortlessly. But understanding often comes much later. And with understanding comes a very particular sort of joy.
We often use...
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Executive Jet Charter 2008-06-07 08:47:01 I don’t normally do sponsored reviews on this blog. In fact, I have rejected a fair number of offers for paid posts just because I don’t generally find that they fit in with the theme of this blog. ...
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I Don’t Know Much About Writing... 2008-06-12 07:15:48 There are some bloggers who do an outstanding job writing about writing. It is a good thing, and something I enjoy popping in to look at from time to time.
I, however, know nothing about writing. ...
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Do You Review Back? 2008-06-17 02:32:00 When I first started blogging, I was a part of a community blog site. I had originally expected to write, and not really know much about who was reading what I wrote, or if it was even read at all. ...
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Haves and Have Nots 2008-06-19 10:00:28 I saw a list of “Haves and Have Nots” at silken’s Family Night blog. It looks like a fun game to play along with.
Here’s a list of 200 items. You can copy it into your blog post, then highlight...
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I Love My Apple 2008-06-23 20:29:59 I am an avid Mac user, and have been for a very long time. I love my Mac, and all the various Apple
products I’ve used over the years. I am a huge fan of my iPod, both the Classic model (newly...
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A Different Approach 2008-07-17 19:58:52 I have written poetry for a very long time. Like most poets, I can say that my early poetry was really bad. It was too bare, too direct... all the things that many poets struggle with early on.
In...
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I Saw it Against My Better Judgment, but.... 2008-07-12 19:03:15 When I first saw the trailers for Kung Fu Panda, they did nothing to inspire in me a desire to see the show. When my nephews got here at the beginning of the summer, it was just about all they could...
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A Blogging Empire 2008-08-05 19:18:51 If you’ve ever wondered what a blogging empire might look like, here’s an overview. Quoting from dictionary.com, an empire can be defined in this way:
1. a group of nations or peoples ruled over...
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