Me and Sylvia on the canal in Qibao (April 2011)

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

— John Stuart Mill (view other epigraphs)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 The Platypus of Prose

In Juan Villoro's phrase, the column is the platypus of prose.
These approaches -- and more besides -- are outlined in Jaramillo's introduction: fifty pages determined, with the help of Norman Sims and of the columnists themselves, to bring the reader to the river where this platypus bathes.

Juan Gabriel VÃ¡squez' column this week, La crÃ³nica, o cÃ³mo ponerle cercas al rÃo, is sending me scrambling to look up references... VÃ¡squez is here a columnist writing about understanding the genre of the column. Some of the references:

Juan Villoro
Rafael Molano and his magazine Gatopardo
magazines El Malpensante (where I have seen VÃ¡squez' work before) and Etiqueta Negra
Norman Sims and his book The Literary Journalists
DarÃo Jaramillo Agudelo and the AntologÃa de CrÃ³nica Latinoamericana
ToÃ±o Angulo Danieri

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