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Working on the attention span.
GYM: So this is my gym, which is very expensive and that I really have to go to more often. Well, counting the time it takes me to get ready to go out, walk there, change, actually exercise, shower-it’s a several hour-long commitment. I’m currently looking for a new apartment, but I’d like to find a relatively close place so I can continue going ( Read more... ) -
Vocab.
I was thinking about building vocabularies, and how I’ve been doing it. Sometimes you think you’re wasting all your time, and it’s incredibly frustrating. But if all that wasted time means you’re on your way to being a bit happier, seeing more colors in the world, finding an easier way to live, maybe it’s worth it. Maybe from the past two years ( Read more... ) -
Language issues
I’m not tolerant at all when 99% of Japanese people speak to me in English, especially when it’s only to to say simple stuff like, “This is traditional Japanese food!” or “Isn’t it cold?” You think I was a Japanese literature major and went to an intensive 10-month program and still can’t understand that much? There’s that very special and ( Read more... ) -
Vertigo
Anyone whose goal is ’something higher’ must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? Then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire ( Read more... ) -
From Howards End
London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force ( Read more... )
