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Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Post author By Nicholas Andriani
Post date August 3, 2021
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Reading fairytales within the origin language. Contextual agreements between time and place, emotions and aesthetics. We might localize our hearts out but truth be told we humans are too complex to translate. #japanese #japaneselanguage #folklore #fable

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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States

Post author By Nicholas Andriani
Post date February 1, 2021
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Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.

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Love in the Time of COVID-19

Post author By Nicholas Andriani
Post date March 23, 2020
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What. A. Time. It. Is. As we continue to wrap our heads around our first officiated pandemic, not that we aren’t the victims of other, more abstract pandemics such as racism, colonialism, and free-market capitalism, but hey, morality/philosophy will have to take a backburner today. No, today we’re dealing with a vicious strain of flu […]

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Book Announcement: Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan

Post author By Nicholas Andriani
Post date October 16, 2019
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The Way Things Are

The Way Things Are – Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
#taoism #taoteching #mindfulness

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That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats

Post author By Nicholas Andriani
Post date March 6, 2019
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“A line will take us hours maybe, Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching have been naught. Better go down upon your marrow bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather— For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to […]