Pain

So here’s what I have learned in the last few days… 1. It’s amazing how radically your view of a situation can change. Sometimes pain is self-inflicted, and very often I think the effects of emotional pain of this type can be overcome far more easily than one imagines. 2. It’s amazing how quickly back pain can result from improperly executing the head motions in the butterfly stroke. We’ve just begun learning to do it. I made a joke in Korean about how our classs used to look like a bunch of retarded frogs, but now we look like retarded …

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Illicit/Impossible: Romantic Neuroses and History

History isn’t always what is convenient, comfortable, or acceptable to us, as I’m reminded reading this article sent to me by my friend John Wendel, about what’s going on at Thomas Jefferson’s old estate, Monticello. Here’s a snippet: The country has been fascinated for the better part of two centuries with the question of whether Jefferson followed his father-in-law’s example and fathered children by Elizabeth’s daughter, Sally. Leading historians who doubted this have done an about-face since genetic evidence linked Jefferson to one Hemings child. There is a growing consensus that Jefferson fathered most, if not all, of Sally’s children, …

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trying some more…

GatorLog: All things Weblog This fellow left a trackback on my website, but it’s not working I think I shall have to spend Thursday figuring out why. Anyway, it was very nice of you, Gatorlog, and I really appreciate your thoughts and explanations. I realize that power means different things in Korean. I knew about the electricity because I tried saying it to one of the office girls the other day, my CD player is out of “him” and she looked at me like I was crazy for a second. Anyway, your thoughts were interesting. And believe me, I find …

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