Archive for June, 2010
What is SEVENTEEN??
When we last left our hero, he was exiled to the shed in the backyard, and his last remaining friend – Gang, the stray cat – had abandoned him. How can it go downhill from here?
There seems to be some kind of scared white piglet inside my head that fills me with weakness [...]
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Kenzaburo Oe’s SEVENTEEN , part three
What is SEVENTEEN??
I felt a chill running from my bones to all my viscera, as I turned away from my family and walked to the backyard. Beneath the summers' night sky was a second layer of rose-colored sky, as if two skies were overlapping. Humidity and dust rose from the ground, suffusing my lungs and obstructing [...]
Oe Kenzaburo’s SEVENTEEN part TWO
What is SEVENTEEN??
Where's part one?
At dinner, no one said anything about my birthday, even my sister. I began to realize that no one was going to say anything suitable at all. Of course, our family had a habit of not talking at mealtimes to begin with. Father, who taught at a private school, disapproved of talking [...]
Oe Kenzaburo’s SEVENTEEN, part one
What is SEVENTEEN??
CHAPTER ONE, part one.
Today is my birthday. I turned juu-nana-sai. In English, they call it sebentiin! My family – Father, Mother, and Older Brother – didn't even notice (or perhaps they pretended not to notice), so I didn't say anything either. At nightfall, my elder sister, who works as a nurse at the nearby [...]
June funny photos
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"Time to think about our environment for the future? This toilet roll is 100% recycled paper."
The photo above is only funny if you remember that 'cure' is not only pronounced 'kyuu-ur', it's a Romanization of the Japanese くれ (koo-ray)！, as in 'Give me a hair salon!'
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WTF giant amounts of cameras at a post office ATM [...]
Israeli settlers, help is on the way!
Just read an article in the New York Review of Books about how psycho the Israeli government is.
The article was written before this whole 'gaza boat shootout' fiasco, but it might help explain it. Anyway the article was rad, and so I wrote my own article and here it is.
Here’s how to solve the problem [...]