"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, but, can a joke ever be "only a joke?".
Attributed to Sigmund Freud.
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About Me
- Sailor Hugo
- A Master of Arts in Comparative Literature (New York University), and a Bachelor of Arts --Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA), Phi Beta Kappa,and Interdisciplinary Honors-- in English and American Literature (with concentration on Creative Writing); earned a minor in Philosophy (Hunter College of the City University of New York). An Instructor at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Literature. Teaches for the Comparative Literature and the Spanish & Portuguese Departments of that university. He is finishing a novel (working title: Tropical Paradise Lost). In 2003 wrote The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? Also a painter, he has described his style as "concrete expressionism." In January of 1988 he came to live in Manhattan, after having resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 he lived in Paris, where he did research at the Sorbonne and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Lives an unconventional life: The Irish writer Emer Martin called his Central Park West apartment “the inside of Hugo's head."
