with their use of language, at least as I see it. Wonder if it happens in English, and I'm just not noticing it.
Anyway, today's nugget: 稀に（だが）よくある（らしい） →矛盾系
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E7%A8%80%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%81%8F%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B
http://wiki.ffo.jp/html/11736.html
Monday, October 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The more time I waste...
The more I realize I need to rest.
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In other news, you never know what people know (are saying) about you...
My options, assuming I can make it through this year (screw you clusters!!!):
JET. Masters. PHD. Foreign Service. Admissions. Language Learning.
Stuff I wanna do: CLS, Fulbright, etc
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From Seidensticker's Tanizaki eulogy.
"This parade of heroes hastening to martyrdom threatened to become a stampede. It was broken by a comic interlude, a period of immersion in the classics, and a period of enforced silence. A Cat and Shouzou and the Two Women (猫と庄造と二人の女） appeared in 1936, by which time Tanizaki had begun rendering The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. Two women love Shouzou, or at least would like to have him, and Shouzou's principal love is a cat named Lily. The struggle for possession of Shouzou thus becomes a struggle for possession of the cat, and Shouzou is its helpless object. In a wonderfully successful and funny denouement, he is rejected by the cat. It is as if, like a kyougen actor, he had been brought in to burlesque the solemn performers before him."
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Chinese 口头报告 （是差不多真的话）
下个学期我会毕业。因为我的学位是日语，所以我的妈妈着急然后我找得到找不到工作。我也是。至于，我不像工作。
昨天跟我的指导教授讨论一下，他说，如果在华大念研究生，可以把大学的学分，又快快地又轻松地毕业。只是我得上日本文学系。
听说整天得写文章，也得经经常常地学历史。经常跟老师打交道是一定会成重要的事情。
我还听我朋友们的建议，才可能决定选不选申请华大。
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我再喜欢了这个歌儿
梁靜茹 的 “爱你不是两三天”
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In other news, you never know what people know (are saying) about you...
My options, assuming I can make it through this year (screw you clusters!!!):
JET. Masters. PHD. Foreign Service. Admissions. Language Learning.
Stuff I wanna do: CLS, Fulbright, etc
----------------------------------
From Seidensticker's Tanizaki eulogy.
"This parade of heroes hastening to martyrdom threatened to become a stampede. It was broken by a comic interlude, a period of immersion in the classics, and a period of enforced silence. A Cat and Shouzou and the Two Women (猫と庄造と二人の女） appeared in 1936, by which time Tanizaki had begun rendering The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. Two women love Shouzou, or at least would like to have him, and Shouzou's principal love is a cat named Lily. The struggle for possession of Shouzou thus becomes a struggle for possession of the cat, and Shouzou is its helpless object. In a wonderfully successful and funny denouement, he is rejected by the cat. It is as if, like a kyougen actor, he had been brought in to burlesque the solemn performers before him."
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Chinese 口头报告 （是差不多真的话）
下个学期我会毕业。因为我的学位是日语，所以我的妈妈着急然后我找得到找不到工作。我也是。至于，我不像工作。
昨天跟我的指导教授讨论一下，他说，如果在华大念研究生，可以把大学的学分，又快快地又轻松地毕业。只是我得上日本文学系。
听说整天得写文章，也得经经常常地学历史。经常跟老师打交道是一定会成重要的事情。
我还听我朋友们的建议，才可能决定选不选申请华大。
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我再喜欢了这个歌儿
梁靜茹 的 “爱你不是两三天”
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Need to find Tanizaki's 恋愛及び色情 (笑)
" 'I remember reading a piece of advice on women's etiquette in some book or other -- I'm fairly certain it was from Tokugawa Ieyasu -- that the secret to remaining in a husband's affections is not to remain endlessly in his bed but to return to one's own bed as quickly as possible after marital relations. Such advice reflects Japanese people's fundamental dislike for lustful indulgence, but to hear things said of a man like Ieyasu, unparalleled in mental and physical strength, is a bit surprising.
...So long as they are Japanese, husbands probably sense the truth of Ieyasu's advice even more keenly than their wives... The causes are no doubt various, but the fact remains that Japanese men fatigue comparatively quickly. It may be that the fatigue affects us mentally, convincing us that we have acted disgraceful, with gloom and passivity the result. Or it may be that our heads start out stuffed with traditional thoughts of love and sex as vulgar, so that, conversely, it is our melancholy mind that influences the flesh. In any case, it is clear that we are a race of people unable to withstand the more vigorous carnal pleasure. One finds this corroborated by prostitutes at the international port cities like Yokohama and Kobe. According to them, Japanese have much weaker desire than foreigners.'
Tanizaki's coy use of the nature/nurture riddle reveals that the long span of nativist tradition supposedly connecting him to Ieyasu, and indeed to all men "so long as they are Japanese," is comically short. He asks, Are Japanese men feeble on account of their race (人種) or on account of their tradition (伝統)? Either answer would allow for a properly timeless, unadulterated Japan. But clearly neither answer is correct. Japanese men are feeble on account, quite literally, of prostitutes at international port cities. These are the women whom modern capitalism has positioned in the most strategic places for judging Japanese men against their global competitors. Accordingly, they are the ones who know. To hear of Ieyasu's sexual weakness is "a bit surprising" not because the military hero was otherwise so virile but because the current moment is one when remembered remarks by hired sex workers are what decide such things."
from Margherita Long, Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism
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Also, I heard from Da today (yesterday) that lots of Asian guys like Japanese porn -- this was in a discussion about being tricked into saying やめて！, mind you -- which just begs the question: Assuming it is true and that やめて and similar cries play a role in their attraction, is it because of some (quasi-)rape fantasy unavailable in their respective country's porn, are the Japanese simply regarded as porn masters? Is it an exoticism (orientalism) of Japan (in that same essay as above it reads: "Love and Passion" is not squeamish about acknowledging that the relationship between Japan and the rest of Asia is illogical precisely because it can only be sorted out through triangulation with the West", which is an interesting thought), does やめて hold some linguistic significance or is it precisely because they do not have the other contexts of the word in their own mental lexicon? These same guys, what is their opinion of western porn?
Reminds me of conversations with しゃっく、 こさっく and しゅうぞう....
...So long as they are Japanese, husbands probably sense the truth of Ieyasu's advice even more keenly than their wives... The causes are no doubt various, but the fact remains that Japanese men fatigue comparatively quickly. It may be that the fatigue affects us mentally, convincing us that we have acted disgraceful, with gloom and passivity the result. Or it may be that our heads start out stuffed with traditional thoughts of love and sex as vulgar, so that, conversely, it is our melancholy mind that influences the flesh. In any case, it is clear that we are a race of people unable to withstand the more vigorous carnal pleasure. One finds this corroborated by prostitutes at the international port cities like Yokohama and Kobe. According to them, Japanese have much weaker desire than foreigners.'
Tanizaki's coy use of the nature/nurture riddle reveals that the long span of nativist tradition supposedly connecting him to Ieyasu, and indeed to all men "so long as they are Japanese," is comically short. He asks, Are Japanese men feeble on account of their race (人種) or on account of their tradition (伝統)? Either answer would allow for a properly timeless, unadulterated Japan. But clearly neither answer is correct. Japanese men are feeble on account, quite literally, of prostitutes at international port cities. These are the women whom modern capitalism has positioned in the most strategic places for judging Japanese men against their global competitors. Accordingly, they are the ones who know. To hear of Ieyasu's sexual weakness is "a bit surprising" not because the military hero was otherwise so virile but because the current moment is one when remembered remarks by hired sex workers are what decide such things."
from Margherita Long, Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism
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Also, I heard from Da today (yesterday) that lots of Asian guys like Japanese porn -- this was in a discussion about being tricked into saying やめて！, mind you -- which just begs the question: Assuming it is true and that やめて and similar cries play a role in their attraction, is it because of some (quasi-)rape fantasy unavailable in their respective country's porn, are the Japanese simply regarded as porn masters? Is it an exoticism (orientalism) of Japan (in that same essay as above it reads: "Love and Passion" is not squeamish about acknowledging that the relationship between Japan and the rest of Asia is illogical precisely because it can only be sorted out through triangulation with the West", which is an interesting thought), does やめて hold some linguistic significance or is it precisely because they do not have the other contexts of the word in their own mental lexicon? These same guys, what is their opinion of western porn?
Reminds me of conversations with しゃっく、 こさっく and しゅうぞう....
Monday, October 11, 2010
冷酷という優しさ
http://buttersafe.com/2010/10/07/get-over-it/
good words:
文芸的にあまり文芸的な
話らしい話のない小説
捻くれ
嘘のことでないと面白くない
随筆、退屈読本
good song:
君のキス － ケミストリー
good words:
文芸的にあまり文芸的な
話らしい話のない小説
捻くれ
嘘のことでないと面白くない
随筆、退屈読本
good song:
君のキス － ケミストリー
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Teusday
My homework would take me no time at all, if only I had focus.
But I'm no longer sure if living on campus would have solved that problem for me...
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In other news I went to WILD the other day, and my first impressions were that it was a waste of time. However reflecting later, I did see Chingy and learn that she's still in STL, and also people watching at WILD was interesting. My explore kids (from both years) are growing up... and making rather interesting choices, including to the question of "who to dance with" hahaha.
But I'm no longer sure if living on campus would have solved that problem for me...
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In other news I went to WILD the other day, and my first impressions were that it was a waste of time. However reflecting later, I did see Chingy and learn that she's still in STL, and also people watching at WILD was interesting. My explore kids (from both years) are growing up... and making rather interesting choices, including to the question of "who to dance with" hahaha.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Something I need to work on
And no, that does not refer to homework.
J.C. Powys's Confessions (1916)
On Staying Cool, Acting Normal, Not Getting Dessert:
"It is the little thing, the unrehearsed gesture, the catch in the breath, the droop of the lip, the start of surprise, which really reveals. We may analyze ourselves in volumes and remain undiscovered; and then - by yawn, a tilt of the head, a sob of exhaustion, a flash of hate - we are betrayed and unmasked forever."
I saw Melissa today, and was tempted to throw my backpack into her bike wheel. However! Today I resisted a temptation to do evil, and thus am able to declare myself VIRTUOUS.
10/10 coming up. Maybe I should ask Al to switch the tables for me.
J.C. Powys's Confessions (1916)
On Staying Cool, Acting Normal, Not Getting Dessert:
"It is the little thing, the unrehearsed gesture, the catch in the breath, the droop of the lip, the start of surprise, which really reveals. We may analyze ourselves in volumes and remain undiscovered; and then - by yawn, a tilt of the head, a sob of exhaustion, a flash of hate - we are betrayed and unmasked forever."
I saw Melissa today, and was tempted to throw my backpack into her bike wheel. However! Today I resisted a temptation to do evil, and thus am able to declare myself VIRTUOUS.
10/10 coming up. Maybe I should ask Al to switch the tables for me.
Monday, October 4, 2010
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