INCHOATE THOUGHTS
Hi,
At the first New Faculty Seminar of the year, a new, rather
distinguished colleague from Comparative Literature recited and discussed a wonderful
sixteenth-century Aztec poem on mutability while we ate masoor dal and samosas.
Interestingly, he then contrasted it with a delightful Japanese pop song by
Namie Amuro, "Want Me, Want Me." You can check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKZ0JUwAzMM. We all studied the photocopied
lyrics carefully while listening to the song on iPod loudspeakers. All the
assembled professors were utterly po-faced as she sang in interwoven Japanese
and English of her explicit desires. This is what we Harvard types quite
rightly consider to be a working lunch.
Ever,
Ivan