Joaquim, in Two Languages

I didn’t fully learn Vietnamese, its diphthongs, its grammatical exceptions, and its history until I learned it from my professor, a man who loved German literature. His favorite book chronicled the friendship between Narcissus and Goldmund, in essence, a tug-of-war between the world of the senses and the world of the mind. He learned English [...]

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Light to Light, Light to Dark

There is a saying in my first language, often repeated around the house: “Light near light becomes light, light near darkness becomes dark.” The saying is about proof of influence, expressed in visual terms. So like some minor historians, my parents looked back on the company I kept as if describing epochs and eras of [...]

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