Tuesday July 21, 2009

Today's Readings:

• The White Itself

  Plato and the "concrete universal"--
  Log24 on Thursday, July 16, 2009

• Edged with Brown

  Context for a Log24 entry of July 16:
  "So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,
  Along the empty alley, into the box circle,
  To look down into the drained pool.
  Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,
  And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
  And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
  The surface glittered out of heart of light...."

• Signifying Nothing

  An essay on Harvard professor
  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  

• Professor Gates Arrested

  A racial incident in Cambridge
  on Thursday, July 16, 2009
  

• New England White

  Race relations in Academia

• Notes on Mathematics
  and Narrative

   

  "... the glue that binds the brotherhood
  is ultimately made not of
  love and interracial harmony,
  but of something stronger and more
  enduring: shame, fear, and greed."
  -- Review of New England White

• Don't Forget Hate

  Cf. Eugene Burdick and The Word, 1966.
  More recently, Tom Wolfe and The Word
  and Pig and Rat Get Lost.