Which is Which? / Who is Who?
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that aren't true.*
Mark Twain
Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens [1835-1910]
* The quotation is most likely apocryphal,
or it paraphrases a saying (or some of the
sayings) by Josh Billings, for instance:
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings
Pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw [1818-1885]
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Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings,
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.