Hi flist, can I ask a favor for my mom? She's an 11th grade English teacher teaching American Lit, and she's looking for a book to assign her students over the summer before 11th grade starts. She's specifically looking for a novel or short stories by "a female non-white (!!) author, better than Jhumpa Lahiri." So, uh, I'm interpreting that "better ( Read more... )

AviaryJaswinder Bolina ( Read more... )

THE NAME ( Read more... )

WHAT DO YOU THINK DO THEY MAKE YOU THINK OF THINGS ( Read more... )

( oh maybe this is spoilers for end of s6 )

chuyma (Aymara) = soul or heart

After a curing held to summon Ingrid's lost soul [...], she was asked how she had slept and whether she had dreamed. Dreams, like speech, are an index of the actions of the soul. She did not remember dreaming, and I ventured that she had slept "like a dead person." I was quickly corrected: she had slept "like an ( Read more... )

"The myth of Picasso's membership in the French Resistance ( Read more... )

( this thing I do when I need to not get distracted too much but am distracted anyway: a list of random thoughts )

an odd thing to read while listening to the Inception soundtrack:

"Because the foundations for loneliness begin in the dreamscapes you create. Their resemblance to reality reflects disappointment first." - Claudia Rankine, from Don't Let Me Be Lonely

also, she quotes Fanny Howe's Tis of Thee: "I learned to renounce a sense of independence by ( Read more... )

typin' up posts about my boring studies

( la la academic thesis la la la )