”As with language, culture offers to the individual a horizon of latent possibilities--a flexible and invisible cage in which he can exercise his own conditional liberty." (Ginzburg. The Cheese and the Worms. xx-xxi) 「言語がそうであるよう…

"Transcendence, maladie proprement européene." (Deleuze et Guattari. Mille Plateaux. 28) 「超越性、西欧特有の病」（ドゥルーズ＝ガタリ『ミル・プラトー』）

It seems that I keep reading something, awake or asleep. I fell asleep in reading a book and dreamed of reading some book that, though very much displaced and modified, appeared continuous with the book I was reading this afternoon.

Certainly you read Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days in your childhood. No? At least, I did. However, I didn't notice how pecuniary the adventure of Monsieur Fogg is until today. True, the protagonist embarks for the sake of honor, n…

かなり酔いが回っても普通に英語を読んでいられる自分にいろんな意味で驚きを隠せない

ここ4年の留学生活で獲得した物。飲酒癖。

疑似ベジタリアン的な食生活をしていると週に一度くらい猛烈に肉が食べたくなる。いや、より正確に言うと、身体が肉を欲していることを強烈に感じるようになるというべきか

Nothing is more irritating than that you're looking for a xeroxed article in piles of papers and books, you're absolutely sure it should be in your room, but never find it anywhere! Probably I should go to the library tomorrow and xerox it…

"but the ridiculous and the sublime are near..." (Butler. Erewhon.) 「しかし馬鹿げたものと崇高なものは近くにある……」（バトラー『エレホン』）

"...the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone。" (Ibsen. An Enemy of the People. Act V) 「この世でもっとも強い人間は、誰からも誰よりも離れてひとりで立つ者だ。」（イプセン『民衆の敵』5幕）

アメリカのショッピングモールを歩いていて気づいたこと。日本ならマルイをひとまわりすれば今シーズンの流行がなんとなく見えてくるけど、アメリカ（西海岸郊外）だとさっぱりだ。何軒か店を回ってもメンズファッションの全般的な流行りというものがまるで…

Why is Nietzsche such an amazing reader of Kant?: "That Wagner disguised as a principle his incapacity for giving organic form, that he establishes a "dramatic style" where we merely establish his incapacity for any style whatever, this is…

From Stephen to Bloom: "We can't change the country. Let us change the subject." (Joyce. Ulysses. 16.1171. 527) 「どうあっても祖国は祖国です、どうしようもありません。別の話をしましょう。」（ジョイス『ユリシーズ』第16挿話）

There is no more appropriate day than today to reread Ulysses!

Why I keep hearing from UCI science major freshmen that over 35 yrs old people lose interest in politics? Well, probably one may maintain that the older one becomes the less open-minded he becomes; indeed, I'm experiencing this a little bi…

Perhaps for the first time I'm really enjoying reading Freud. But the more I read Die Traumdeutung, sometimes consulting the original, the deeper my suspicion becomes that The Interpretation of Dreams is a mistranslation. My German is very…

カール・フレッシュの音階教本とクロイツェルを15分ずつさらってからバッハの無伴奏ヴァイオリンのヴィオラ版の重音のないナンバーを練習する。25年以上も楽器をやってきて今日ほど基礎練の意義を思い知らされた日はなかったように思う。スケールやエチュー…

With Alban Berg's music resounding in your ears, a weekend shopping mall turns into something very surrealist. Bright sunlight above you, happy faces around you, and expressionist anxiety inside you.

"O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility--the undiscovered land in the most dista…

週一で足を運ぶ日本食スーパー「Marukai」の入口にいつも立っているにこやかな顔立ちのラティーノの警備員のそばを通りすぎるさいなぜかふと視線が下がったせいで彼のベルトに拳銃がぶらさがっていることに気づいてしまった。

"The human mind stands bewildered in the presence of its own creation. The time will come, nevertheless, when human intelligence will rise to the mastery over property, and define the relations of the state to the property it protects, as …

大学院の年度末アンケートの「Sex」の項目の選択肢とその順番がなんともアメリカ的であるように思う。「Female, Male, Transgender spectrum, Decline to state」。