• Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb, John Treat
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• The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History, Ann Huss & Jianmei Liu
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生死修短，岂能强求？予恶乎知悦生之非惑邪？予恶乎知恶死之非弱丧而不知归者邪？予恶乎知夫死 者不悔其始 之蕲生乎?

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I’ve moved into Yale, more or less, and I’m sitting here typing from the fifth floor of a slightly decrepit graduate dorm as the wind blows through the dingy vertical shades of my window.  Ah, life as a graduate student.  Since I have not fixed a window screen up with duct tape yet, various things have been flying in.  A ladybug came in and landed ( Read more... )

The greatest obstacle to love is fear.

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one.  どんどん落込んじゃうタイプだから、最初から決心して一生懸命頑張ればいい！！

two.  Be able to make a clean start without being dragged down by the beginning of the day.

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Hmm.

Um, on a different note, I’m slightly disturbed by the fact that my bikini & I are NOT IDEAL right now.  I know that no one who sees me in it in Thailand (besides my best friend) is ever going to see me again, but I think it’s like karma, right?  I don’t want to spread a serious Lack of Hotness in the world!!  Well, too bad.  Oh, I am also ( Read more... )

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I find just the names delicious…it would be fun to try to make some of these things someday. They are pretty alien from the sort of desserts I had as a child.

plum pudding
lemon biscuits
gingerbread and whipped cream
cake covered with maple frosting and nuts
orange-frosted cake with cocoanut
butterballs
orange shuffle
jam roly-poly
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