IN MEMORIA PRISTINAE AMANTEM
"My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high
Is was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility."
A. Marvel
YOU MAY DENY YOUR PAST BUT IT WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF YOUR PRESENT
“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Saturday, 23 March 2019
Friday, 22 March 2019
Monday, 18 March 2019
ON ELITE EDUCATION AND THE MYTH OF MERITOCRACY
I have seen this sense of frustration and disillusionment in the eyes of undergraduates I’ve worked with at Harvard, young people who over the course of four years endure the psychological toll of navigating a school environment that both implicitly and explicitly tells them that the only reason they were admitted was an undeserved handout, that their place was not earned but is instead an act of charity, that they were given someone else’s spot. But what this scandal demonstrates is that the very idea of our society—in the context of higher ed or otherwise—being a “meritocracy” was made up to justify and reify existing social hierarchies. It is not real. What is real is the advantages of wealth and race, which often combine to give people things that they have told themselves they deserve. What is real is that students who have done everything right are often the ones made to feel as if their place on campus is anything other than earned.
Clint Smith - The Atlantic
Saturday, 16 March 2019
LENTEN PROSE
RESPITE
"Sooner or later we all need to shut down or run away for a little while."
Ariella Budick - TLS 2.11.16
INTROIT - 2nd Sunday:
Tibi dixit cor meum, quaesivi vultum tuum, vultum tuum Domine requiram: ne avertas faciem tuam a me.
My heart declared to you: "Your countenance have I sought; I shall ever seek your countenance, O Lord; do not turn your face from me." The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
Friday, 15 March 2019
POLITICAL RANT
I am appalled at the degree of right wing specious cant that we have to endure these days in public discourse.
Sadly much of it leading to the actions we've seen today in NZ and similar incidents in this country - a true crisis unlike the made up Southern boarder crisis.
Homophonic, misogynist bigoted discourse coming from the mouths of those like Graham. Jordan, Gaetz, Meadows etc and Tucker C and all of Fox News.
All led and enabled by a phoney, illegitimate POTUS.
Monday, 11 March 2019
LES LIVRES ET LA LECTURE
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
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