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"Now, though, teachers are not kept on chains, they are effectively shackled by their salaries. Had they sufficient spunk to resign, they would not originally have allowed themselves to sink into the slavery of teaching." Hilarious rant on pedagogues written a hundred years ago (or just yesterday).

"Now, though, teachers are not kept on chains, they are effectively shackled by their salaries. Had they sufficient spunk to resign, they would not originally have allowed themselves to sink into the slavery of teaching." Hilarious rant on the profession of pedagogy written a hundred years ago (or just yesterday).

"...any self-criticism we make are purely symbolic, and will never be acted upon." [advice from Office of Standards in Education]

Expected of an anthology, the stories are hit or miss. Dan Zigmond's "Humans" is a hit.

Best story so far...Circling the Hondo. Mary Yukari Waters' has written a fantastic story expressing important Buddhist principles. I've read it twice.

So beautiful that I almost missed it among Miller's fantastic rantings about life as a pedagogue:: Suddenly, out of nowhere, two lovers appeared...I could feel the sag and slump of their bodies when they leaned against a rail, heard their shoes creak as the muscles tightened for the embrace.

Fay ce que vouldras! Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.

"He said that he believed in Bergson's and Thomas Davidson's speculations of the existence of a vital ontology of organismic self-feeling. All because...we're attracted to beauty, goodness, and perfection."

Somehow the realization that nothing was to be hoped for had a salutary effect upon me. For weeks and months, for years, in fact, all my life I had been looking forward to something happening, some extrinsic event that would alter my life, and now suddenly, inspired by the absolute hopelessness of everything, I felt relieved, felt as though a great burden had been lifted from my shoulders.

Great quote, speaking from a wisdom that aches: As my father's mother always said, "Nobody is dead until they are dead."

"My task is not only with memory but with tackling an older narrator's relationship with a younger aspect of self." ~ Interesting tension, but the young narrator has actually been around longer, and the "older narrator" is new born. I wonder how Vilar will reconcile this paradox?

reminds me of Anais Nin, terrible generous girl: "... I had to handle my finances better, save money for groceries instead of wasting it all on presents for friends."

And then he took out the album and turned through it again, hoping to render a new version of his life, one he could bear to live with.

"When a long distance oft she could have gain'd, she checked her swiftness, and her feet restrain'd." from myth of Atalanta

I love LT's father: "Socialists should never put their trust in capitalism. The hot lead of the revolution is far more trustworthy."

"It's the housewives and plumbers, the law-abiding and pious, that allow the most heinous crimes to continue. They raise their children and pray to God, while soldiers slaughter dark-skinned families in their country's name."

"It's okay, you know. Like ridin' a bicycle. You don't have to win no race to have a good time."

"since your just back /from adventure /lean closer /as soon as the opportunity arrives"

...I've just stopped by / to say whatever comes out of my mouth / this kiss blown through the opening

Spiraling chant of a silence / full of whirring crickets / its message fire itself

Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go. Go to places that scare you.

So many things are thought but never spoken, such as this thought itself - which is exactly when the ache in the hand to hold a stylus comes.

Literature tells us that authority is a language effect...that authority is the power of fiction; that authority is likewise a fiction. •shoshana feldman

Could it be that she was walking through his city, his market, in some way she did not yet know?

"I think it very important to alert your [readers] to the progress of their own reactions. I can foresee a time, after lots more tales have been told, when that won't be necessary. But for now it's a must."

"One other way I keep healthy is by taking a nap. I really nap a lot."

"To put a finer point on it,I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone."

...and I ran 3.5 miles today.

many levels of narrative. Memoir: "Nothing was more grievous to the sensitive feelings of William, than seeing the separation of families by the slave-trader: " to Fiction: "Pompey...appeared perfectly indifferent to the heartrending scenes which daily occurred in his presence."