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balckwell
1 month ago
new essay: part three of the OF TWO WORLDS series, PHILOSOPHICAL HONESTY, in which i briefly sum up my adult life in order to explain why i feel the need to bother with such ideas
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balckwell
1 month ago
new essay, DON'T LET THE WORLD GET TO YOU, a follow up to last week's essay ESCAPE FROM REALITY in which i either make things more clear or less clear
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balckwell
1 month ago
new essay: ESCAPE FROM REALITY, in which i offer a few impertinent observations about what is and isn't real
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I read through some of your site, your writings on learning Japanese, your impressions of Natsume Soseki. I thoroughly enjoyed it. When you have the mental space for it, I think it would be worth revisiting Kokoro. I read it again this year, after doing so in high school about 7 years ago, I felt I understood sensei's perspective as I felt kinship with the protagonist at that time. Perhaps you might feel the same.
balckwell
1 month ago
Thanks for reaching out. I'm taking a short break from Soseki, but Kokoro is definitely next on the list. It's funny; I remember almost nothing from my initial reading (it coincided with a very full time of my life) but I'm sure it'll be one of those cases where once I start reading, it will all come flooding back to me.
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balckwell
2 months ago
messing around with my list of books again. to fit the theme, i renamed the categories CANONICAL WORKS, DEUTEROCANON, and APOCRYPHA, and re-sorted many works to better reflect their canonicity
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balckwell
2 months ago
new essay, THROUGH THE EYES OF A CAT, a study of the protagonists in Natsume Soseki novels
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new essay: I DON'T NEED TO TRAVEL, FOR THE WORLD IS MERELY MY IDEA
loved this 'When a man in Ancient Greece got on a boat and went to Asia Minor, he wouldn’t mentally place himself on a map, but instead just travelled through physical space, the same way that we might walk from room to room.' I have also been on that pirate-themed ship :))