August 14, 2024
It seems that I’ve known all my life the difference between being broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary condition. Being poor is a permanent mindset. J.D. Vance went broke as a youth and used it to pretend to understand what it’s like to be a poor white man. He was never poor, only broke. He grew up knowing the difference. And so did I.
Ezra Pound, True Culture Hero
Ezra Pound wanted to be a cultural hero. And he became one. He wrote a lyric epic, the Cantos, all about his heroic quest. And he was a true hero, an honest hero, a real hero, not a narrow little perfect media hero. The heroes are always deeply flawed. Odysseus,...Death Not Tragic
[category: memo] [status: published] Deaths are often upsetting, sad, deeply disturbing…. But they are almost never tragic.
Schelling’s Bhartṛhari in Kosambi Order
he Poems by Bhartṛhari/bhartrihari in Andrew Schelling’s *Some Unquenchable Desire” translation of selections from D. D. Kosambi’s critical edition of Bhartṛhari’s Subhāṣitas (epigrams), placed in the order of Kosambi’s edition to ease reference and collation.