Trouble is, obscure kanji looks vaguely familiar. Blood on top of happy, is what I make of it. Have met it before-- have met it before in this book, remember having trouble with it before. Something clicks. I look up 'testicle' in the English function and get, yes, 睾丸. What a good thing I didn't ask P after all. (And the radical, it turns out, is 'eye'. On its side. With a dot on top. Ohhhkay.)
The dangers of language acquisition
Trouble is, obscure kanji looks vaguely familiar. Blood on top of happy, is what I make of it. Have met it before-- have met it before in this book, remember having trouble with it before. Something clicks. I look up 'testicle' in the English function and get, yes, 睾丸. What a good thing I didn't ask P after all. (And the radical, it turns out, is 'eye'. On its side. With a dot on top. Ohhhkay.)
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Ah, ok. So the trans character in Kafuka that I didn't notice was trans when I first read the book (or at least didn't remember as a salient detail…
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Found this poem on the blog of someone I no longer follow because, though rather younger than I, they've gone curmudgeonly old: forgetting our…
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It rains on the streets as it rains in my heart
There's Lot's wife and then there's 'twenty years ago was a really nice year, why can't it be twenty years ago again?' But yeah, 2000 was a nice…
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