12 Kingdoms doesn't irk me nearly as much as Basara. But that's probably because I'm not reading the whole damned thing, wherein Youko doubtless gets to deal at length with the fact that The Guy I Love (maybe) Has Gone Bat-shit Crazy. 'Course, maybe she does in the anime, since such a thing is made of it. But the feel of the oeuvre is more (shudder) Tanaka than Tamura, though the most Tanaka bits are clearly elided in the anime. That's still one reason why I'll never read the novels. (The other, yes, is the names. My tolerance of Sinophilia in written Japanese is low, very low. Rare kanji are fine for Them Guys what study kanbun in high school, but me, I now know how other people felt about the Latin passages in The Name of the Rose.)
12 Kingdoms doesn't irk me nearly as much as Basara. But that's probably because I'm not reading the whole damned thing, wherein Youko doubtless gets to deal at length with the fact that The Guy I Love (maybe) Has Gone Bat-shit Crazy. 'Course, maybe she does in the anime, since such a thing is made of it. But the feel of the oeuvre is more (shudder) Tanaka than Tamura, though the most Tanaka bits are clearly elided in the anime. That's still one reason why I'll never read the novels. (The other, yes, is the names. My tolerance of Sinophilia in written Japanese is low, very low. Rare kanji are fine for Them Guys what study kanbun in high school, but me, I now know how other people felt about the Latin passages in The Name of the Rose.)
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Somewhere in this here journal I noted that the coda to Bede's story about the sparrow* in the meadhall was actually a pasage from a Russian short…
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Pepys is always writing 'Lay late abed' (except when he's getting up at 4 a.m. to be somewhere downriver at 8) and I fully sympathize with the…
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The announcement that acupuncturists and massage therapists will be allowed to reopen soon lifted me out of yesterday's funk, though I still think…
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