This is coming out of left-field, but I think I want a predominantly Spanish-speaking wife. I don't have anyone in particular in mind (yet). It has occurred to me lately how much I like Latinas--meaning that I am attracted to them but, also, just as potential friends. And I mean Latinas from Latin America or those born in the U.S. who maintain ( Read more... )

I'm sitting at my desk in my study. It's a small room, but I like its cloistered feel. I was surprised to discover this because when I'd envision being alone in this small room, I'd get nervous and anxious, as if being alone was going to be boring and utterly uncomfortable. As it turns out, I like being in here by myself. Granted, I've not studied ( Read more... )

The Talking Cure If the so-called "talking cure" is a key feature, for some even the fundamental practice, of psychoanalysis, then a retrospective reading of 19th Century Literature via psychoanalytic lens must take into account approximate versions of what could be considered the "talking cure." In this regard, Catholic confession (a central ( Read more... )

I want to jot down some thoughts about the progress of my academic pursuits in order to re-visit them later ( Read more... )

It's a no-go. I hung out with her yesterday. I realized how...bored I was. There comes a point in a man's life when youth and beauty--if unaccompanied by wit, confidence, intellectual acumen, and verbal dexterity (things I've realized are important to me)--is not enough. I'm glad I've had this realization early on because it seems like the Older ( Read more... )

I'm in Dublin at the moment, here for a series of seminars. They have all been really stimulating and a couple have provided me with ideas for my dissertation, especially as far as how to fuse my interests in British Romanticism with 19th c Irish Lit. And the city and its people are great too ( Read more... )

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I discovered a cool word today as I was reading an article on the iconography found on the margins of a medieval text, the so-called Douce manuscript of William Langland's middle English text, Piers Plowman. The word is "iconomach"--it means someone who is anti-images. The "icon-" base signals its reference to visuality but I've no idea what the " ( Read more... )

Things are looking up ( Read more... )

I can't really discuss this anywhere else (just yet), so I'll write it on here--"Romantics, I can't quit you." Yup, somehow the Romantics have come back with a vengeance ( Read more... )