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Mieko Kawakami in, Heaven.
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to the guanacos at the syracuse zoo, chen chen (from “when i grow up, i want to be a list of further possibilities”)
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Some classic Asian literature I own:
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en, translated by Arthur Waley.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, translated by Martin Palmer.
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin.
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories summary:
A collection of exuberant, imaginitive and sometimes wierd short stories by a man who's work continues to influence modern day authors.
Some lovely quotes from Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories:
“I don't have the strength to keep writing this. To go on living with this feeling is painful beyond description. Isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?”
“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
“Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
“Truly human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
“In a word, tears like this light a modest lamp of human love amid the gathering dusk of human suffering.”
I made another two similar posts, one for Monkey: The Journey to the West and one for The Romance of The Three Kingdoms.
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— Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
excerpt: i’m sad, but i’m alive, and living through it. / that is my solace and my joy.
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*Originally published in Chinese with the title "Kuángrén Rìjì"; sometimes translated as "A Madman's Diary"
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"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine."
— Haruki Murkami, Kafka on the Shore
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Japanese books with cats on the cover 🐈
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heaven by mieko kawakami
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A favorite section of my bookshelf
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Cypress Skiff from The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry, tr. J.P. Seaton
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"for if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. it is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. but though i can digress with the best of them, i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."
-the secret history, donna tartt
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a story, li-young lee
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I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.
Some classic Asian literature I own:
Monkey: The Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en, translated by Arthur Waley.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, translated by Martin Palmer.
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms summary:
A Chinese historical fiction piece that seamlessly weaves together the fictitious and legendary aspects of the historically documented rise of three powerhouses vying for total control of the country. Full of treachery, court intrigue, ambitious characters and deceptive ones alike.
Some lovely quotes from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
“To kill deliberately is very wrong,” said Chen Gong. “I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me,” was Cao Cao’s reply.
"A man plans. The heaven decides the outcome."
"Let me ask, my lord. Would you rather give yourself to the world, or would you rather make the world yours?"
"Work hard and even harder! Do not carry out the evil just because it is small, and do not hesitate to do the good just because it is small. Only virtue and benevolence can move the people's heart. Your father lacked virtue, hence don't emulate me as a model."
"In peace you are an able subject; in chaos you are a crafty hero!"
I made another two similar posts, one for Monkey: The Journey to the West and one for Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories.
I reblog bookish content and since I have a home library I also make bookish content myself; aesthetic book pics, reviews, recommendations, quotes, excerpts, hauls and cats.
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*Originally published in Japanese with the title "Ningen-isu"
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"In the woodblock prints of the Genroku period one often finds the features of a pair of lovers to be surprisingly similar, with little to distinguish the man from the woman. The universal ideal of beauty in Greek sculpture likewise approaches a close resemblance between the male and female. Might this not be one of the secrets of love? Might it not be that through the innermost recesses of love there courses an unattainable longing in which both the man and the woman desire to become the exact image of the other?"
— Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, 1949
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