by Dirk Johnson | Aug 14, 2024 | Journal
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.
by Dirk Johnson | Aug 11, 2024 | memos
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,...
by Dirk Johnson | Aug 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
[category: memo] [status: published] Deaths are often upsetting, sad, deeply disturbing…. But they are almost never tragic.
by Dirk Johnson | Aug 7, 2024 | Commonplace Book
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.
by Dirk Johnson | Aug 6, 2024 | memo
To lose your legs or your eyes or your ears but still remain uncowed, high spirited, and cheerful: this is true power, an exalted siddhi.
