'El rap es la vida y es tan grande que es difícil de encasillar. Es crónica pero también es otra cosa.'

Trout stance

καὶ τὸ σιωπᾶν λόγος

'Why is jazz niche… and not at the center of our understanding of 20th century American intellectual and creative life?'

'The resulting basic concepts of transcendental logic—the pure categories—might be called incomplete concepts of things in themselves. These concepts alone do not suffice to individuate every possible thing, or to determine, with respect to every possible thing, the ascription of one of each possible pair of opposed real predicates. As so derived, "our concepts of things in themselves" are not fully determinate. Consequently, the categories are Janus-faced. We may use them to think things in themselves—that is, we may use them as incomplete versions of the concepts of things that are thoroughgoingly determined, of infinitely intelligible things that are individuated merely by their locations in the conceptual space of all transcendentally real possibilities. When we use categories in this way, our thoughts are empty forms through which we cannot determine and know any objects. But we consider this emptiness as manifesting our finitude, as expressing our inability to provide the matter supplied by God for His own cognition. Alternatively, we may use our pure categories, which are not fully determinate, to think possible things that are not fully determinate and that are individuated only insofar as they are actualized. When we use categories in this way, our thoughts are empty forms through which we can determine and know objects, provided that the matter for our condition is provided through receptivity. Thus, categories may be used in two ways: either to think but not to determine or know things in themselves, or to think and possibly to determine and to know appearances.'

In praise of John Florio

'… paper is starting to become a cipher for authenticity and proof.'

Thoreau’s Kalendar

'Divorce is a writer's business. You can paint a wedding but not a divorce.'