LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Nice Review -- With Odd Typo

For some reason at one point 'Sublette' becomes 'Lunette.'

This is the first review that has taken the memoir aspect front and center. Written by the book editor of the Christian Science Monitor, this one is particularly pleasing.

2 comments:

K. said...

Someone wandered over to the Irish Channel from Jazz Festival just to take a leak?

Seriously, you must have been scared out of your wits.

Foxessa said...

That's not what happened.

At least not as you expressed it.

It was much worse than that, actually.

The sense of being scared slowly crept up. The level of anxiety, that sense of being under surveillance at all times, by the predetors looking for vulnerable prey -- and the knowledge that so many of the predators were just out-and-out insane, and it had nothing to do with vulnerability at all, just being in the wrong place at their right time for going off -- and under constant surveillance by everybody else too -- I started to get very edgy by February.

Then came this.

St. Patrick's Day, when thousands of drunken males descended upon Parasol's only a block away, surrounding the house -- and Ned was in Seattle, I think -- I was terrified.