Jan Mieszkowski

A friend has a student who constantly texts in class. Today she wrote to say that her phone is broken and she needs to miss class to get it repaired.

Bizarre. A few hours ago, I referenced this show for the first time in a decade. I cited it as evidence that I have actually seen some good tv. 😂

A poem is a horde of destructions.
–Wallace Stevens

This is why you do the reading.

Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species.
–Hannah Arendt

A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder.
–Jean Cocteau

Cake en abyme.

I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.

Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.

"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience."
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion

Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.

Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"

What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?

(There's a newer version in Crises of the Sentence, but this should probably do.)

Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?
–Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Book Botany

#Mood

I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.

Sigh.

Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917

The Ruins of Nostalgia – Wesleyan University Press New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cle...

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It’s a genre?

“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin

Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social!

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TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.

Required seminar wear.

Reading between the lines.