Stories, stories.
With Great Power: "She didn’t recognize the villain. Was he new, or had she been even more out of touch than usual lately? He was cast from the same mold as most of the others—white, middle-aged, handsome in a roughly-carved way. He’d get a lot of fan letters, if he was taken alive." (via)
A Day In the Life of an Empowered Female Heroine: "“Feminism,” she said to herself, and then put on some red lipstick. Then she kicked another guy through a window, and he fell all the way." (via)
I hosted another week on
poetry, posting poems by Ariwara no Narihira. Or rather, passages from Tales of Ise with poems identified in the Kokinshu as his. For those poems I haven't translated yet, I used Helen Craig McCullough's edition of Ise. Sliced: chapter 17, chapter 103, chapter 99, chapter 82 (first part), chapter 4, chapter 125.
---L.
Subject quote from "Unwelcome," Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.
With Great Power: "She didn’t recognize the villain. Was he new, or had she been even more out of touch than usual lately? He was cast from the same mold as most of the others—white, middle-aged, handsome in a roughly-carved way. He’d get a lot of fan letters, if he was taken alive." (via)
A Day In the Life of an Empowered Female Heroine: "“Feminism,” she said to herself, and then put on some red lipstick. Then she kicked another guy through a window, and he fell all the way." (via)
I hosted another week on
---L.
Subject quote from "Unwelcome," Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.