My Job Is to Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable
A bumper sticker
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For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me, and therefore I would advise you to spare me. I dare say that you may feel out of temper (like a person who is suddenly awakened from sleep), and you think that you might easily strike me dead as Anytus advises, and then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you sent you another gadfly.
Socrates (according to Plato´s Apology)
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About Me
- Sailor Hugo
- A Master in Comparative Literature (New York University), and a Bachelor Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA) Phi Beta Kappa & Interdisciplinary Honors in English and American Literature (& Creative Writing), plus a minor in Classical and Political Philosophy (City University of New York). At New York University, he has taught for the Comparative Literature and the Spanish and Portuguese Departments. In 2013 he published Belleza Terrible; in 2014, The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? In 2015, he published Occupy La Rive Gauche: R-evolution; Paris, May 1968. His most recent work is titled Del lado de allá. He writes bi-monthly columns in some Spanish-language newspapers. Also, a painter, he has described his style as "concrete expressionism." In January of 1988 he came to live in Manhattan (the Irish writer Emer Martin called his Central Park West apartment “the inside of Hugo's head"), after having resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 lived in Paris, where he did research at the Sorbonne and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.