I have promised, in roughly chronological order, to write about
- The status of women in Korea
- Steven Pinker, Noam Chomsky, the Universal Grammar, Linguistic Relativism (also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis), and how some of these things don’t like the others
- This very interesting discussion in progress about literariness, truth-in-blogging, “the man (or woman) behind the curtain”, trust, and art.
(apologies to anyone I missed.)
I’m not sure how many of these, if any, I’ll get to, but I’ll try. I suck at digging out from under the results of my own laziness.
Category:
Metablogging
Hello!! I followed you from Lost – curious to hear about life in Korea and the appeal of there to an American as my father has been there just about Seoul for 6 yrs now and plans to retire from his gov’t job and live out his years there… Look forward to reading more and conversing w/you!!!
When Truth Conceals
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THE TRUTH ABOUT ALMOST DYING.
The May Harper’s contains an unsettling essay by Mark Slouka called “Arrow and Wound.” After an allusion to a visitor’s seeing the aged Tolstoy “scoop a double handful of violets from the wet earth, breathe in their aroma with a…