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Post date: Mar 27, 2020 3:20:24 AM
in a bit of contradictory events, i find that i'm reading books less often than before the COVID-19 epidemic broke out.
the library isn't even charging me late fees;
i have half- to a dozen books on hand from them.
this doesn't even consider the number of books i bought over the years and still haven't read. on an unrelated note, in japan they have a word for this: tsunduku! [0]
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i don't understand it [π/4]. it's like i can't commit to starting and finishing a book right now. it feels antithetical to how i've always lived my life.
then again, these are strange times.
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on the other hand, i've been enjoying the remote features that my public library offers me.
my romantic associate and i watched a french dramedy called "les petits mouchoirs" [1] (or: 'little white lies').
it reminded me of "the big chill" that i watched in a second-run theater, more than a decade ago. it spoke of not just a nostalgia, but also saudade [2] ... which is another word that translates, but not well.
it spoke of getting older, and not necessarily wiser ... or in other words: getting older.
Marion Cotillard is an amazing dramatist. i first became aware of her when she played Talia al Ghal in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. i haven't seen that recent re-enactment of The Scottish Play, but i'm curious whom form of Lady MacBeth she could do.
a drum, a drum: dread COVID doth come!
it is become Death: destroyer of worlds.
ashes, ashes, we all fall dead.
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[0] here are the latest five:
[π/2] actually, i think it's stress. i think i'm addicted to COVID-19 news.
[1] admittedly, i forgot the french word for 'lie.' oddly enough, the spanish noun mentira i remembered right away, as well as mentiroso. isn't it odd that the word for 'lie' is feminine while the most related search was 'liar' in the masculine? oh well: when in Nueva York...
[2] in the same NPR article:
"The natives of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina have the word mamihlapinatapai for a look shared between two people when both are wishing the other would do something neither wants to. In Thai there is greng-jai — when you don't want someone to do something for you because it would be a bother for him or her."
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