I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don't know anything like enough yet.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Weekly wisdom
"Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form."
--Vladimir Nabokov
2 comments:
MarkG
said...
I've just stumbled into your blog. Just a reminder: "Newfie" is a derogatory term to those educated to know the difference. I'm sure your colleagues would probably agree.
as a newfie living in ontario, i'm not overly offended by this word anyways... besides, a word is involved in a complex intertextual relationship to many other words and concepts, and it is reductive, in my opinion, to pass judgment on one...
I'm an English professor. I completed my PhD at Western in September 2004, and was hired at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This blog started out as my way of keeping in touch with people -- giving friends and family the option of checking up on me at their leisure without the annoyance of frequent lengthy mass emails. It still does that, but has also become my personal forum for airing whatever happens to be on my mind. You have been warned.
2 comments:
I've just stumbled into your blog. Just a reminder: "Newfie" is a derogatory term to those educated to know the difference. I'm sure your colleagues would probably agree.
- That's MY bit of wisdom for you. ;)
Mark...from Ontario! :)
@ MarkG
I haven't seen he word newfie here at all???
as a newfie living in ontario, i'm not overly offended by this word anyways... besides, a word is involved in a complex intertextual relationship to many other words and concepts, and it is reductive, in my opinion, to pass judgment on one...
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