What's New

All the articles in my NLP archive are now in HTML format, which should make them much more readable for most browsers.

The Ramblings page now has quite a bit of new material, including a number of articles on Ezra Pound.

There's now a separate page indexing the main lists of links throughout the site. A lot of these lists (for instance the ones for movies, San Francisco, and Hawaii) are pretty idiosyncratic though, because they're more for my own convenience than anyone else's. In particular, I don't make much attempt to keep a lot of them up to date.

The various literary links, including my reading list and the book reviews, have now been put in a separate literary directory. Also there's a new directory for movies, including a number of new commentaries on various films.

Mostly I've stopped worrying so much about what's here being discovered by the ``wrong'' people -- to wit, administrators and my students. I've realized that neither administrators nor students have either the willingness or the capability to read more than three paragraphs. (Occasionally one does encounter a bright student, but I'll take my chances.)

Therefore I've allowed myself to make even more personal disclosures than before. In particular, I've now written the 1984-1997 sections of the autobiographical material, as well as some commentary on my sabbatical in San Francisco in 1997-98, which is not very compatible with the dignity and pompousness people expect of a professor. (But then nothing else I write or do is either!)