keep the fires burning

Gang, I'm off first thing tomorrow morning to a conference, where I'll be all week. In that time I intend to avoid the nonacademic internet like a plague, or locusts, or a plague of locusts, or a monster that shoots plagues of locusts out its mouth. So I'll be out of pocket for awhile. I'll keep a candle burning, and be back next weekend. Unless I run away and join the circus, and never ever come back home.

Feeling very fortunate lately, very lucky. All my best.

Oh, and: always remember that they only complain about your manners when they cannot respond to your argument. Always remember that they will always say they disagree with your style when what they hate is your substance. Always remember that they will use the idiom of maturity in order to enforce conformity. Always, always remember: when they forbid what you say, rather than responding to what you say, they do so because you are strong and they are weak. Never forget that.