I was thinking about that panel with Goujun writing his memoirs or whatever they are, and the scar through his eye. Why does post-Apocalypse Goujun only have one eye? And then the obvious answer occurred to me. No, *not* 'somebody took it out with a sword.' Not at all. It's so that he can be a clever historical reference. If you have a dragon (I learned this from Shibata Ami) he must be a one-eyed dragon. What am I talking about? Google 'dokugan ryu' and you'll find out.
I was thinking about that panel with Goujun writing his memoirs or whatever they are, and the scar through his eye. Why does post-Apocalypse Goujun only have one eye? And then the obvious answer occurred to me. No, *not* 'somebody took it out with a sword.' Not at all. It's so that he can be a clever historical reference. If you have a dragon (I learned this from Shibata Ami) he must be a one-eyed dragon. What am I talking about? Google 'dokugan ryu' and you'll find out.
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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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