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I find myself strolling through nonfiction more and more. Especially essays and books about products and their philosophy...

There should be a warning on this book: Children abuse, Sexual violence. The cover is way too misleading.

I'm reading this at work, so naturally, i recommended the book to someone and they bought the copy I was reading. Now I have to get it from a library...

skipped the Ogai section (seems interesting but i need to write my thesis on Soseki)

"... There was even a folk belief that “if one looked up at the emperor one would be cursed, or . . . one’s eyes would be crushed.”[...] In their confusion, loyal subjects sometimes stripped naked at the sight of their divine emperor or ventured out to see him in transvestite dress." 2/2

"It is important to remember that the emperor was also in a liminal state.
Officially divine, he was adopting many of the attributes of ordinary humans. [...] The emperor’s subjects, who made sure that they were never spatially in a position literally to look down upon their descended-from-the-clouds ruler, must have been quite bewildered... 1/2

am i going to regret this? xd

not much is happening, not many conclusive thoughts and opinions. the historical background feels just like an illustration to the story and not part of it, even though I know it is supposed to be. i could read like 20 pages of this and not remember anything that happened nor if I actually read them.