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Five reasons to love Wikipedia:
1. You cannot do anything with Japanese poetry without running into Shiki Masaoka, the first great modernist Japanese poet and critic. He revitalized both the haiku and tanka forms and gave them the names we use now, and set the contemporary tone for how classical Japanese poetry is viewed and discussed.* Thanks to his article, I now know that he also played baseball, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame on the 100th anniversary of his death from TB.
* For what it's worth, he was right about the first poem of the Kokinshu being worthlessly trivial, but not about the collection as a whole.
2. The Dunning-Kruger Effect, aka "Unskilled and Unaware of It," is culturally dependent.
3. Also, Dunning and Kruger recognized the idea was hardly new:
ETA: Also, I just ran into Touchstone's "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" (As You Like It, V, i)
4. But one probably shouldn't, and not just because it turns out that Yeats was paraphrasing Prometheus Unbound there.
5. There is a disambiguation page for Disambiguation. (There is also meta meta, but it's more trivial.)
... that I was not made for here
---L.
1. You cannot do anything with Japanese poetry without running into Shiki Masaoka, the first great modernist Japanese poet and critic. He revitalized both the haiku and tanka forms and gave them the names we use now, and set the contemporary tone for how classical Japanese poetry is viewed and discussed.* Thanks to his article, I now know that he also played baseball, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame on the 100th anniversary of his death from TB.
* For what it's worth, he was right about the first poem of the Kokinshu being worthlessly trivial, but not about the collection as a whole.
2. The Dunning-Kruger Effect, aka "Unskilled and Unaware of It," is culturally dependent.
3. Also, Dunning and Kruger recognized the idea was hardly new:
Although the Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge")[3] and Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision")[4] as authors who have recognized the phenomenon.To which one could add "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
ETA: Also, I just ran into Touchstone's "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" (As You Like It, V, i)
4. But one probably shouldn't, and not just because it turns out that Yeats was paraphrasing Prometheus Unbound there.
5. There is a disambiguation page for Disambiguation. (There is also meta meta, but it's more trivial.)
... that I was not made for here
---L.