I finally posted a utility I wrote called the Universal Text Lookup Tool. It was designed to solve the problem of looking up text on your computer, especially when it may not be in your browser. Instead of the usual flow of things when you want to look up a term you may […]
AMC showed The Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) the other day. It was a terrible movie by most measures, but also rather charming because of its political conscience and occasionally witty dialogue. Hippy influence is strong in this film as we see by Victor’s severed arm experiment at college that flashes a peace sign.
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The lovely and talented Moira writes, “Is there any sort of analysis of these [Ten Nights and Dreams] stories? I would be interested in reading some kind of critical analysis.â€
Well, it’s a minor work, so it has been more or less ignored, I think. There’s one analysis I know of on the web, in […]
For the public benefit I’m going to explain what 全伽（ãœã‚“ãŒï¼‰ means. You won’t find it in any dictionary, I know, because I looked in a lot of them.
It came up in the text for “The Second Night,” in “Ten Nights and Dreams” by Natsume Soseki. I was only able to find out what […]
Yes, it’s about time this poor old site underwent some kind of renovation. In one form or another, my website has been around for about ten years now. It’s unfortunate that I can’t remember exactly when I wrote my first webpage.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has a copy of my site from October […]