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petronia(Keep repeating it until it sinks in. Add to that fandoms that make one ponder the tragedy of immortality - I collect a lot of those, it seems like. Maybe because I believe it.)
Came home and decided to read through all of MoB 5.5, as best to get it over with. Only made it to page 90. Am wimp. Feel exhausted. Possibly this is due to actual physical exhaustion, as I'm operating on my usual lack of sleep, but being wrung like dishcloth by book does not help. Cannot conceive of anyone writing thirty-odd more books like this, even if they are dainty Japanese books that are one third the size of ruff 'n' tuff American books. The woman's stamina is inhuman. Also I would never have said before that one could be a bad Buddhist in quite the same sense as one could be a bad Catholic, but I guess we all live and learn.
The Juuni Kokki novels wouldn't happen to have furigana, would they? It may be all right even if they don't - the worst she can do is insert a passage or dozen in Chinese, right? Ahahahahahaha. *goes splat*
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Going to bed, more or less. Will look at election results tomorrow. I say: prepare for the worst and hope for the best, but in actuality I'm a prepare and expect the worst sort of girl. It cuts down the number of nasty surprises.
Came home and decided to read through all of MoB 5.5, as best to get it over with. Only made it to page 90. Am wimp. Feel exhausted. Possibly this is due to actual physical exhaustion, as I'm operating on my usual lack of sleep, but being wrung like dishcloth by book does not help. Cannot conceive of anyone writing thirty-odd more books like this, even if they are dainty Japanese books that are one third the size of ruff 'n' tuff American books. The woman's stamina is inhuman. Also I would never have said before that one could be a bad Buddhist in quite the same sense as one could be a bad Catholic, but I guess we all live and learn.
The Juuni Kokki novels wouldn't happen to have furigana, would they? It may be all right even if they don't - the worst she can do is insert a passage or dozen in Chinese, right? Ahahahahahaha. *goes splat*
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Going to bed, more or less. Will look at election results tomorrow. I say: prepare for the worst and hope for the best, but in actuality I'm a prepare and expect the worst sort of girl. It cuts down the number of nasty surprises.
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:55 pm (UTC)But, here's something neat. アジト for base comes from Russian, and is related to agitprop. (Actually, the Kojien says that it's really short for agitpunkt, but.) This combined with making me look up various mantras and chakras and going, oh, yeah, I get the relationship now. XD;
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Date: 2004-11-02 10:30 pm (UTC)(And since I don't need to work early, I can down this corrosive/nerve-raking drink up to the last drop. >_> OMG-OMG-OMG-EotW!!)
-Ced
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Date: 2004-11-03 01:19 am (UTC)She tends to lose me in descriptive passages about scenery etc., as well as when she gets into the nitty-gritty of governmental structure, ministers, officials--political stuff, I can't seem to internalize it the way I easily absorb, say, the names of species of demons. ^^; Dialogue is no trouble to parse if you've got a handle on honorific speech. I suspect your reading level is better than mine, so you ought to be fine.