1. the five star stories homework . . . everytime I sit down with a
copy, or some "data", I become engrossed and contain make more "data"
/ maybe when august is gone, because august is a heat-murk. I made a
little desk/ table though, for these sorts of things.
2. something re: "accelerationism" / actually this is all written but
I lack guts to post it, plus it veers off into many tangents that may
be considered utter insanity. Actually I don't mind being considered
"utterly insane" -- but, oh and I did I mention main computer is
melting, it feels things have to be done quick before true "meltdown"
3. tentenko reviews. Two are written. They require editing because
again tangents. And Conduct was going to happen, then Conduct 2
appeared and I have to re-think things.
4. ototoi friday in japanese. I want to make the text loop and am
having difficulties...
5. the translation dilemna re: fushitsusha. This is also written but
my guts are lacking and anyway, who would really care. This applies to
al the above.
6. I Am A Hero homework. Bits of this are done. Then the final volume
came out and caused me severe melancholia and I cannot re-read yet.
This may take years in fact, it was a wonderful ending. Maybe, I
propose, a list of mysteries prior to last volume.
7. Something else I have suddenly forgotten.
8. an attempt to create a working method for translating haiku into
english. Prime examples, i.e. the Bashou "frog/pond" one.
maybe 8a) correctives to translations I have seen of western poems
into japanese. i.e. E Pound's Station at the Metro / a Yeats poem the
author of I Am A Hero may be using in one of his new works.
9. something else 9a) something also else 9b) also something else
10. revelry games and jouissance. . .(sic? probably)
-- oh, 7 probably something to do with "writing" -- who wants to hear about that. writing is dead.
no-revival o nothing ---
What Shall Be (here -- 2 +~~__OR__ things that should be here but aren't -- a sort of follow-up packed with excuses
アイアムアヒーロー研究
木はキ
か
後で説明
I try now to explain,
in / on 2ちゃねる
the thread on "I am a Hero"
they would make a list
of main theories
and "tree is key"
was a main early entry
on the list
(木＝"ki"＝just so happens
to sound like key)
(i.e., as a key clue)
and early on, the very
1st volume, a tree is
mentioned, in the park
in Nerima, [placeholder for name of park]
^^^^石神井公園＝shakujii park / (stone god/spirit well?)
and I went with wife-woman
but couldn't find the key tree
(it was getting late and
my knee was still bad)
but in the lake in the
(very nice) Nerima park
is this sculpture:
and, that is all for now.
This is draft version of my
"I am a Hero" homework.
Also, I predict there will be 23 volumes in total,
because of this image(but see comment for my idiocy)
also, if I am to be generously
stretched with my thinking,
the third hand predicts the
strange "friendly giant"
who rescues our main characters
from hakone baths. . .
I will edit as I go and update etc
otherwise I can't manage to do.
The idea of perfectionism, or
simply "finishing" something,
I can't currently . . .
Destiny-Lock -- initial explanation
I had intended an I am a Hero "homework" series of posts before the release of 17th volume, but I have failed. At least let me explain "Destiny-Lock" and why this is important etc and in relation to the manga-comic I am a Hero :
so,
over 16 yrs ago, when I was 19(?) or so, around-abouts that at least, ensconsced in a troubling boy's only japanese dormitory (秀(?)麗寮） (I went ill-mad there, I am sorry to my past self) but mangas(not quite proper plural of manga but don't worry) were passed around and the sole one I remember, after all the time, turns out to be a short by the manga author of "I am a Hero", which along with "the Five Star Stories" I am mainly interested in, as manga goes.
And I didn't know this until it was announced a collection of early short work would be announced, in one of the volumes, maybe around volume 8, I'll check,and I thought "what if?" what if it turns out ... but that would be too much of a coincidence, I thought . . .
so came to be a "Destiny-Lock"
does this make sense? It better make some sense.
It means the only story I remember from that time is by the author of the almost-only manga series that I care about and am reading as it is released.
Hence call it "Destiny-Lock"
This is as prelude to "I am a Hero" homework-studies series, wherein I shall do just as that title implies.
Though it will start from around current events in the manga, and then go backwards.
There will be digressions.
Images will be either photos from actual manga or on-line illegal-I-know scanlations depending on desire for quality etc.
Take care with spoilers please. I assume no responsibility beyond announcing what chapter(s) are to be discussed, in title of blog post.
last two pages from said story; title being: 「退屈な月」 released 1999,週刊ヤングサンデー第7号
