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

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Summer Arrives with Dragon Breath

100 degrees.

A pile of requests had been waiting for me at the library, so I was there when the doors opened at 10 a.m.

  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
  • James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker
  • Gender and Jim Crow by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
  • Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney, the Illustrated Edition
  • Havana Red by Leonardo Padura
  • Age of Bronze, Part 1 -3A, The Story of the Trojan War by Eric Shanower (graphic novel)

It's all bedtime reading though, with the exception of two titles for the ongoing research.

I've already made the sticky rice so it will be cold, with the shrimp, tofu and chicken by dinner time. The rice is the bed for spinach, sliced avocado, mango, green and red bell peppers, drizzled with chili-seseme oil and lemon and lime juice.