#theboys
The road less traveled.
I’m very proud to have helped edit one of the essays that became this book, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature, while I was managing editor of Victorian Studies. The essay, “Wild Charges: The Afro-Haitian ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’,” was among my favorite of the many, many critical essays I read in the course of my graduate studies.
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Krista Tippett’s conversation with Anil Dash is a classic—one of my On Being all-time favorites.
The indignity of Minnesota winter: when you drop a glove & then, upon stopping to pick it up, kick it full of snow.
Auden on Attention
Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ~ Qtd. in Winnifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Geoffrey Hill on Making and Self-Making
The world is full of noise, the noise of opinion. Are you going to be able to master some small aspect of it, and use it in the making of your own voice? Or is it stronger than you are? Do I mean stronger or just louder? These particular difficulties, and other vaguer apprehensions seem to me to be the force field of making and, in a way, self-making. Even now when the things are coming fairly quickly, I do feel that everything that I write is a kind of battle won—or lost—against silence and incoherence.
Commiseration & consolation for Minneapolis in winter.
Observing New Year’s Day at the Conservatory. (And zoo.)
