This ain’t Turin and no one’s got a shroud, but if you look hard enough, you may see sacred apparitions in our bakery products. At least that’s what Genevieve suggested at Dunkin’ Doughnuts the other day, and I see no reason to doubt her. I’m sorry for not having written but by the end of this you’ll wish for another stretch of postlessness. I’m still broken in the aftermath of the incident with my professor(s). […]
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Closed Boxes
I continue to suffer the aftershocks of my truth-telling. Well, I call it truth-telling but some others seem to disagree. All I know for sure is that I don’t want to say another honest thing in my life. Likely I will, but not at this place. Each school day I get through, I put an angry black X across the date on my class schedule. Eleven down, forty-five to go. I have a strange and […]
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Michael Parenti, writing in The Culture Struggle about journalist Gary Webb who was condemned by his peers for reporting too accurately, says: “[His] real mistake was not that he wrote falsehoods but that he went too far into the truth.” Last night my friend Milt pointed out, with alarming accuracy, that I have been naí¯ve during my time here at SIT. It’s true. I hadn’t noticed how my idealism and open-mindedness had overshadowed my wisdom. […]
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Things could always be worse. Still, the situation is increasingly bleak on the domestic and teaching fronts. I’m grateful for Kim and Sarah, to whom I sent an e-mail a few days ago canceling our lunch date because my spirits are too low. They both called to check on me, and Sarah encouraged me to meet her for lunch the next day, which turned out to be a Very Good Idea. But I love my […]
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