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Today's Japanese tip→ The humble suffix verb samurau 侍, which follows the ren'youkei 連用形, is the female-coded iteration ❨女性語❩ of the male-coded suffix-verb sourou 候. In short, ladies should say 有り難く存じ侍 in their emails, while men should say 有り難く存じ候。
At the same moment, the man with the teetotum predilection, set himself to spinning around the apartment, w immense energy, & w arms outstretched at right angles w his body; so that he had all the air of a teetotum in fact,& knocked everybody down that happened to get in his way.
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Every epoch has its parameters of discourse. Soviet academics had to toe the line. Today, left-liberal frameworks dominate. All I ask is for some tolerance of a handful of enfants terribles, Daoist eccentrics, & literati recluses who are concerned with older, higher things.
Good thing I went through all these Japanese literature anthologies & compendiums gathering up all the volume-titles only to end up removing them from the bibliography entries. I must say, tho, the Bibliography looks much cleaner with just the compendium-abbreviation + volume #.
For example: I have changed my monumental-humble tome title to *The Last Bunjin: Ishikawa Jun & the Case Against Modern Japanese Literature in an Age of AI*. Further, Chapter 7 title is now "Ishikawa’s Foray into Edo Literature: Haikai as Antidote to Shajitsushugi in Age of AI."
Fascinating discussion about Edward Said & both the insights & deficiencies of the "decolonial" Gestalt of consciousness. One of the things I like about Apostolic Majesty, world-history savant, is that he will always steelman those he critiques. Link below.
Trevor Megill is a beast. This is the last thing Roman legionaries saw in the forests of Germania. And the last thing the Tampa Bay Rays saw in the 2026 World Series.
Note: I started off rooting for the Brewers, but took such a liking to Simpson, Martinez, et al. that I switched to the Rays during Game 1. Happy for Milwaukee though. Hell of a team, hell of a coach.
Pro tip for fellow academics, worshipers of twin idols Relevance and The Present: To stay in hot demand & land lots of speaking gigs, be sure to add "... in an Age of AI" to all your tome & article titles.
Just realized that the Neapolitan Sixth chord is in essence just the VI of the iv, whether it's Bach doing it in his E flat minor Prelude Book 1 or Nirvana doing it with the jarring B flat major chord (VI/iv) in the A minor key in "Penny Royal Tea." I'm a slow learner.
The only problem with this view (in context of the Bach example) is that Bach treats the Neapolitan Sixth chord (F flat major) as the temporary key, hence the double-b-flat [rather than b-flat] in the passage I posted. Discuss.
Many of Akutagawa's storiesーKonjaku monogatarishū-derived "Yabu no naka" (In a Grove, 1922) includedーcan be understood in terms of sekai-shukō 世界 / 趣向: “world” and “conceit,” the conceptual binary central to the art & literature of the Edo period. Sekai refers to the...
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... established historical or literary framework that serves as the starting point for a new work, while shukō denotes the innovation or variation by which a writer revitalizes that familiar foundation.
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