Liz: “Thank you for doing the dishes and bringing home all these library books! This is an embarrassment of riches! [Pause] And…I have you!” Me: [Beat] “Just an embarrassment.”
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Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe
One thing my professors told me early in graduate school: You absolutely must condition yourself to fail. Constantly. For every small success I had in graduate school, I am certain I had at least a dozen failures: rejected articles, brutal conference reviews, unexpected flaws discovered in something I’d just spent days working on, etc. These …
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The very beginnings of both technologies, however, could be found at an institution that had been Einstein’s academic home since 1933: the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. The institute was the brainchild of its first director, Abraham Flexner. Intended to be a “paradise for scholars” with no students or administrative duties, it allowed …
James Baldwin’s FBI file contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 until the early 1970s. During that era of illegal surveillance of American writers, the FBI accumulated 276 pages on Richard Wright, 110 pages on Truman Capote, and just nine pages on Henry Miller. James Baldwin – Wikipedia Source: Wikipedia
If you could give a piece of advice to a young person starting out, what would you say? I would provide five bits of advice: Do not be afraid to want a lot. Things take a long time; practice patience. Avoid compulsively making things worse. Finish what you start. Often people start out by thinking …
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The skin of some of the men developed a coarse, rough appearance, as a result of the hardening of their hair follices. Other effects included dizziness, muscle soreness, reduced coordination, and ringing in their ears. But the creepiest change, which occurred in all of the men, was a whitening of their eyeballs as the blood …
thenearsightedmonkey: Sometimes we are so confused and sad that all we can do is glue one thing to another. Use white glue and paper from the trash, glue paper onto paper, glue scraps and bits of fabric, have a tragic movie playing in the background, have a comforting drink nearby, let the thing you are …
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