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The katakana in your Kajiwara banner appear to read "KAIWARA".

Well, I'm leaving this university tomorrow, and I've got to give them their book back. So, somewhat briefly, Reginald Horace Blyth's Oriental Humor.

In the Zen section, he does expand from a particular type of laughter to humor in general, and says something that sounds vaguely like what I said: "Again, much humour is concerned with the collision between the ideal and the real, with the emotional and intellectual contradictions of life, the personal, marital, social, and cosmic paradoxes. Profoundly considered, may not the strange joy of belly-laughter be due to a momentary joyful acceptance of that very contradiction?" So, the fictional world of Kajiwara-san and our awful world of humiliation and tedium, at least momentarily, occupy the same space. Although actually, what this really sounds like is Dagmar Ettin's doctrine of the 'more or less fortunate outcome', but we're still several years too early for that, at least, so disregard that.

There's also some rather, ah.... we'll go with 'strange', content in the book. Like this observation: "We 'see' Zen [...] in daily life, mostly in women, whose lack of brain and absence of morality gives them the Zen of nature."

H--how's that again, Reggie? I wasn't aware that 1959 took place in the sixteenth century.


(p.s. Onee-eeee-chan! Imo-ouuuuuuto! Onee-eeee-chan!)

Not much. :P

You? ^_^

You're welcome :D

Haruhi is ordinary slice-of-life the way A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a typical coming-of-age novel. I've spent sleepless nights for weeks on end, curled up in a ball in the corner of a room with no windows and all the lights turned off, haunted by how great that series is.

But lots of people seem fairly lukewarm about it. I guess it helps that the issues it deals with are just the ones that had been obsessing me for the previous two years. Maybe for me it was the right message at the right time. Then again it's the about the most popular television show in the history of vertebrates, so ostensibly it wasn't just me.

Haruhi-chan ranked ahead of Haruhi? You walk a fine line my friend.

Bueno aka te dejo un comment xD... muy buena la pagina che =D, te effeo x reverse??? arre flogger xD

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