We've been out of town attending to some urgent family matters. There have been a thousand things that would make great posts, but I'm not going to write them. They're not my stories to tell.
We're leaving again tomorrow, and internet access is sparse and slow where we'll be. I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to post again, but it'll be a least a few days.
In the meantime, there's some Foucault to tide you over. Folks like to claim that there are no aphorisms in Foucault, but he did occasionally kick out some bon mots. This is a good one for the times when one contemplates how a life should be lived, and what a life should be.
The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. (Technologies of the Self)
Hmmm... I don't think it's a translation issue, since AKMA's quote comes from an essay and this one comes from an interview, but they're certainly very similar and say basically the same thing. And I like them both.
The quotation I cite is printed as the epigraph in a memorial volume, so it would well be drawn from the interview Krista cites. I haven’t seen the book ifor more than ten years (sigh), but I vivdly remember scouring the original book for any more specific bibliographic information I could excavate from it. Ah, those gradute-school days. . . .