A beautiful story about a woman traveling in Japan with her mother. It's told in reveries, in the wanderings of memories, in fragments that could be episodic and current or fractured and remembered. Exactly who is speaking when is not clear, in a beautiful and moving way where the book, the artwork, is saying what it's saying effectively. I also loved the way the English's structure is a little stilted, not literary but more spoken, but refined in a tight way that feels natural, and at times reflects some of the looseness Japanese has in contrast with English.
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i climb a lot.
learning doctor. i help people make computers do things.
but here it’s mostly manga
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anilist.co/user/saralily/Adults and children sometimes have boards in their bedrooms or living-rooms on which they pin pieces of paper: letters, snapshots, reproductions of paintings, newspaper cuttings, original drawings, postcards. On each board all the images belong to the same language and all are more or less equal within it, because they have been chosen in a highly personal way to match and express the experience of the room’s inhabitant. Logically, these boards should replace museums.
from Ways of Seeing by John Berger
I loved this. I want more. I went in mostly blind, plucked from a Powell’s shelf by @kaybee when I asked her to pick one of the author's novels at random. It blew me away. It's about loss and love and time, and how grief can be a companion. In my head, every scene is overcast, gray, with a spring rain soon to come to a dark but verdant place.
So beautiful, gentle, real. I love its attentional spotlight: narrow, settling on so many ordinary things, infusing them with light and illuminating them like jewels, making them shine in the dark, so many facets of emotions, so many ways of relating to what we know must be, but struggle to situate. It's about different kinds of love, desire, and parting.
There is a tendency among some religious people even to invite ridicule and to bring down on themselves an intellectual contempt which seems to me in some cases justified. Nevertheless, I would advise you against defensiveness on principle. It precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level, it expresses a lack of faith. As I have said, the worst eventualities can have great value as experience. And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.
— Gilead by Marilynne Robinson