Another Twin Peaks-related nightmare, again the night after watching a new episode of the show. The prophecy was true
My first reply to Newman’s question [Does Herman Kahn exist?] was to gain 10 pounds. This may not seem … adequate
… but it is in many ways appropriate.
There was a lot of “orb stuff” in this episode
-ew.com article on the latest Twin Peaks
Although their home on the Soul Plane is known to be Honardi, the immense order of Vairagi Masters is apt to send specialists from among them to gatherings on the order of business seminars.
One such location is the spiritual site of Bcero Corsa, a meeting place hidden in a remote part of the southeastern United States. The approaches to it are protected by thousands of vipers that infest the swamplands.
Certainly, Englishmen at the time were extremely sore about being conquered by the Normans.
snarp replied to your post: I’m not saying this is actually anything more than…
The manga thing isn’t true. It’s a rumor that gets attributed to the book Dreamland Japan, by Frederick L. Schodt, but Schodt didn’t actually make that specific untrue claim. Several others, though!
However, a lot of racist white people are, in my experience, 100% convinced that it is true! So.
I almost tagged the OP with something to the effect of “@snarp is probably going to correct me about this” and now I regret not doing so – the world will never know my powers of clairvoyance
I’m not saying this is actually anything more than a funny coincidence, but:
Somewhere, long ago, I picked up the idea – no idea how true it actually is – that the classic manga/anime look was shaped heavily by a strain of manga that romanticized the west (e.g. The Rose of Versailles, about revolutionary France), in which the big eyes etc. were a basically a (positively presented) ethnic caricature?
You know how there’s this weird purported association on the Anglosphere internet between anime and right-wing politics, up to and including white supremacism? (“It’s always moe girls yelling Nazi shit at me for some reason.”)
You know?
Going through an old notes file I’d forgotten about. Found a part where I seem to be noting down things I didn’t like in Anna Karenina in preparation for some never-written screed:
AK top of p. 400 – seeing things in faces (wood), non-insightfulness (?) etc. of this
AK p. 496 – views on death: dull, sexist (?), etc.
AK p. 671 first paragraph: example of awkward writing?
AK p. 707 ‘the greatest event in a woman’s life’ tolstoy…….
AK p. 709 ’… as it seemed to him’ – good example of typical awkwardness
AK p. 739 ‘For her, all of him … amounted to one thing: love of women’ whoa there…Awkward writing seems much more likely to be a criticism of a bad translation, because that is not an especially common criticism of Lev Tolstoy.
I eventually wrote a more positive if kind of contentless review, in which I blamed the awkward writing on the translation. Although years later I got an interesting comment which made me less sure of that.
(via ghostpalmtechnique)
Going through an old notes file I’d forgotten about. Found a part where I seem to be noting down things I didn’t like in Anna Karenina in preparation for some never-written screed:
AK top of p. 400 – seeing things in faces (wood), non-insightfulness (?) etc. of this
AK p. 496 – views on death: dull, sexist (?), etc.
AK p. 671 first paragraph: example of awkward writing?
AK p. 707 ‘the greatest event in a woman’s life’ tolstoy…….
AK p. 709 ’… as it seemed to him’ – good example of typical awkwardness
AK p. 739 'For her, all of him … amounted to one thing: love of women’ whoa there…