@Graham_Mark_E But that's the point, right? That careful quality is illegible to laypeople; they want the vernacular affective experience of having their minds blown, and they will sacrifice all the rigor and robustness in the world to get that.
@sharkrado insane to ask open-endedly when someone is free and when they respond go "ah! no, i've decided that's not correct. try again!" i'd at the very least be on guard for other potentially manipulative things after this.
@nise_yoshimi One of the reasons "Seventeen" by Ōe is so cutting - not only does he get at a better portrait of the killer than "Patriotism", he gets at Mishima's own use of nationalism as a site of fantasy.
@Sturgeons_Law It makes sense though, for fantasies that use queerness to be acceptable for straight people *because* they are not assumed to interfere with "proper" heteronormative pairing, and so for breaks from heteronormativity to be seen as a threat to this site of fantasy.
@nguyenhdi@getty_a96716 Okay but...good? If your reading depended on some idea of ancient Greek texts as always written in a register which they often weren't, you ought to be disabused of it.
Learning Japanese with any sort of university focus was a struggle for me because I studied politics (政治, seiji) which is one diacritic away from semen (精子, seishi)
@ettingermentum@Nassreddin2002 they think it makes them sound avuncular. gotta rebrand from what they actually are, the last soldiers of Blairism-Cameronism
@_bezpilotnik I say this as a Terry Pratchett Guy, but so much of British Columnist writing about books smacks of a precocious bibliophile childhood they still define themselves by