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Ryan: “Tenderness and Rot”

amesser — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:19:08 +0000

Tenderness and Rot

by Kay Ryan

Tenderness and rot

share a border.

And rot is an

aggressive neighbor

whose iridescence

keeps creeping over.

No lessons

can be drawn

from this however.

One is not

two countries.

One is not meat

corrupting.

It is important

to stay sweet

and loving.

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The Incomparable Paco

amesser — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:11:17 +0000

Over my shoulder:

“You have to be overindulgent to think that a metaphor is something direct. An arrow homing in on a target painted in black on the wall. It is not. It is dangerous, double-edged material. It is an ambiguous resource. It is the writer who creates it, but it is the reader who reinterprets it, adapting it to his own very particular aches and pains. You do not even own the ribbon in the printer you use.”

— José Daniel Fierro, “the one and only, mixed-up and perplexed Traveling Irrationality Salesman,”
in Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Leonardo’s Bicycle (174)

WhoseSpace Tag Cloud

amesser — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:10:35 +0000

And here’s another Wordle, this one for this week’s 3.0 version of my blogging workshop for the Technology Learning Center:

Informative

amesser — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:36:57 +0000

Wordle.net creates intriguing, CC-licensed tag clouds out of any text you want to give it, so I ran my 1A glossary through and came up with this wonderful (and informative) image:

It’s amusing to look at the site’s gallery and see what kinds of texts people have been entering (lots of term papers, I note).

National Language

amesser — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:57:44 +0000

I so love this cartoon, and it only just occurred to me to put it on a handout for class:

XKCD is generally wonderful (when I actually understand it, which is maybe half the time, being a non-math geek), but this is one of my favorites. *And* it’s under a creative commons license– dreamy!