the descriptive joys of Japanese literature

[timeripple]

So, you know that part in the Chushingura where everybody commits seppuku?

And in Happier News (or Maybe Not):

I too have joined the ranks of poor grovelling souls contriving to obtain an iPod. *ponders* Now, would that be in indirect discourse, or would a simple participle suffice? I think I'll go with the participle. I wonder how one might grovel in H&Q-land. It might become necessary, were one to steal a goat intending that it might bear the having-been-stolen wine out of the marketplace. For the hoplites, on the one hand, the ones having come from the ship, must be educated by Homer's brother. On the other hand, we are intending to give the having-been-stolen wine, a gift/bribe, to Homer's brother, so that we may not be indicted by him.

*runs from H&Q-withdrawal-craziness*

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i know that one!

[(Anonymous)]

that one's on a cd i have. it's fun. i also know haul away joe (from the last fiona post comments) - my dad sings it. but i didn't know all of those verses, so that's fun.

hope everyone's doing well, i got my fiddle in the mail a week or so ago and finally took it out and practiced this afternoon :) for fiona's edification, my brand new fiddle book is called "cruinn comhla: the well travelled fiddler's session collection" compiled and arranged by christine martin and anne hughes, publised on the isle of skyeby taigh na teud, www.scotlandsmusic.com in case you're interested.

i started reading "the promise" by chaim potok (sequel to "the chosen", his best-known book) and now i'm totally absorbed and can't do anything but read it. which is unfortunate, because my assignment for this week is to read a different book, about michigan conservation, which is SO INCREDIBLY BORING BEYOND BELIEF THAT MY HEAD EXPLODES every time i even think about reading it. really it's not so bad, it's just that none of it seems to be even relavent to what we're doing - they only talk about the parts of michigan that we're not studying, and when they do talk about our study area it's only about the parts of our study area that we're not studying (we're studying land use - they talk about the water and air polution).

anyone who's interested in arguing about religion, feminism and nietzsche, take a peek at community. i met a woman last night at temple who just got her doctorate in feminist philosophy, she's a brandeis grad and she knew the town of wellesley because her roommate in college was from there!

in other news - i watched bastard out of carolina last night. it was good, and well acted, but i would not recommend it. *ouch* is the only reaction. (it's about child abuse)
and (drumroll please) ... i am finally going to get a cell phone! if my mom ever gets her act together, that is. verison gave her a deal where i can share her minutes, get a cheap phone, and only pay not so much each month. this means that if anyone calls me on it before 9 on a weekday, they will not be able to talk for more than the three seconds it takes to say "i'll call you back after 9", but i will be able to have lengthy conversations for free any other time (i.e. from 9pm-6am on weekdays and after 9pm on fridays-6am on mondays). i will let people know my phone number once my mom gets around to setting up the account and sending me my phone :)

Re: i know that one!

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for fiona's edification, my brand new fiddle book is called "cruinn comhla: the well travelled fiddler's session collection" compiled and arranged by christine martin and anne hughes, publised on the isle of skyeby taigh na teud

Edification also makes Fiona happy. I have the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ceilidh Collections, also compiled by Christine Martin and Anne Hughes, also published on Skye by Taigh na Teud. The wacky illustrations are most amusing.

Re: i know that one!

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crap, i just wrote a whole thing and now it's gone. double crap. oh well. i'll type it again. blah.

i think i saw the ceilidh collections when i bought my book, but decided that this one was cooler. or less expensive, i don't remember. mine doesn't have illustrations though :( but it does have nifty tunes, which i have begun to learn:)

< rant> (which totally loses its point when you're typing it a second time, but i'll try to get all annoyed again)
has anyone else had this experience? because i have experienced it twice now, and i am bewildered. maybe it's a michigan thing:
i'm sitting in a university library in a big space with lots of computers and tables and chairs and people working at stuff - quietly, i might add, and a guy comes in with his shirt tucked into ironed slacks and his hair parted and he's holding a bible. he proceeds to inform us something to the effect that the wages of sin are death, and then also feels the need to give numerous examples not only of these sins (which will, apparently, most certainly lead to horrendous torture in the afterlife if one neglects to accept the lord jesus christ into one's heart), but also of the full extent of the definitions of these sins (apparently, if one feels angry at someone, they might as well have killed the person as god sees it). twice, this has happened to me (once just now, hence the fresh annoyance). and with nearly identical speeches, too. this bothers me for a number of reasons, the easily justifiable one of which is that this is a public library, not a soapbox, no matter how important the message. if everyone who felt really convicted about something decided to get up and give a short lecture in spaces in the library, no one would be able to get any work done, although i have to say it would be interesting. being the only one with the gall to get up in a public but designated as quiet space and tell everyone how you think they should be living their lives (i don't see any rabbis going around and doing this) does not mean you've earned the right to do so. anyone who knows me knows that i am totally eager to hear people talk about things like this in many situations, and have chosen to subject myself to such on many occasions. but i don't want to be lectured when i'm trying to get work done (or reading fanfic, which makes the whole conversation here even more interesting), in a place for being quiet, by someone i've never seen before in my life. i doubt he's winning over many people... < /rant>

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