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balckwell
1 week 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
3 weeks 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
1 month 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
1 month ago
new essay, THROUGH THE EYES OF A CAT, a study of the protagonists in Natsume Soseki novels
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balckwell
1 month ago
new FEATURE: my author overview of HERMAN MELVILLE, which includes almost all of his fiction
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emilynhoward
1 month ago
Benito Cereno is well worth reading. I, not being a fiction or a US lit scholar, haven't read as much Melville as I should. I appreciate the overview.
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after exorcising my youtube demons last week, i immediately recorded a video lecture about "kubla khan"... and where else am i supposed to post it? https://youtu.be/DnCZ55Dofgc
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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