#natsume sōseki

[bsd-bibliophile]

To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others.

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

[severaltuesdays]

With each generation of Soukoku comes the character who first saw them and decided to pick them up and smack them together like barbie dolls

[sskk-manifesto]

I appreciate how Bones went from tourtle mouths to cat mouths

[motifcollector]

Natsume Sōseki's protagonists who are unhappy and unfulfilled and yet too passive to change anything about their lives are so real,,, save me early 1900s japanese men i kin

[gomoren]

Actually all of them could say no

[vivalaplxto]

Based off of:

[randomnuisance]

Okay so I got this headcanon about Natsume Sōseki.

So we all know that he has the ability to transform into a cat right?

Specifically this cat.

Well if you know some things about cat genetics you might have an idea where this is going. Natsume transforms into a calico cat.

For a cat to have the fur colors brown AND black the cat needs to have TWO X chromosomes.

This means that his cat form is either female or one of the few calico male cats which have an extra pair of chromosomes that explains their color.

The odds of that are 1 in 3000.

In the book ‘I am a cat’ which his ability is based on the side character who is a calico cat is also female by the way.

So if we just assumed that his cat form is female we could by extension assume that he might be afab.

Which brings me to my point TRANSMASC NATSUME.

Thank you for listening to my random headcanon based on my random knowledge about cat genetics.

[probablygayattorneys]

So I’ve done a lot of reading this year, and since I supported so many zines, I’ve also had a lot of bookmarks to choose from, so I’ve alternated by book and even tried to tie in when possible. When reading a book set in Victorian England, I used one from a Great Ace Attorney Chronicles zine, because it was the same time period. When reading The Martian, I used one of Apollo because his best friend was an astronaut and to honor the Apollo space program. All that said… I’d like to thank everyone at @turnabout-cinema for setting me up perfectly for my last book of the year.

[amythedemisimp]

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[bsd-bibliophile]

It is not you in particular that I distrust, but the whole of humanity.

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

[dare-g]

Books 83-92 of the year 📖!

[alen09blog]

我顯然什麼事都沒想。也的確什麼東西都沒看。在我的意識舞台，沒有任何帶著鮮明色彩的東西活動，因此我甚至談不上與任何事物同化。但我正在動。不動於世間，亦非動於世外。只是自然而然地動著。不為鳥動，也不為人動，只是心神恍惚地動著。

夏目漱石《草枕》頁92（劉子倩譯，2020）

思緒駐足這段文字良久。遽爾洞悉了自己的閱讀癖性。迄今維繫著閱讀活動，其實是守株待兔的姿態，期待捕獲，指明道盡自己的心聲；儘管前提，以後的故事，連貫脈絡，到底與你零交��，無法類推，無從適用，可那並不要緊。正是如斯短暫的安慰，僅此瞬間，稍縱即逝的快感，片刻像是解癮，析離現實裡的寂寥，落寞，方才擺渡過日常生活的無聊。所謂無聊，環伺於所有向度的罅隙，蠢然而動，個別似乎無害，但憑時間之力，點滴敲打穿蝕，耗殆一個人的精神能量。故而閱讀是這樣一回事，你唯有等待，劑量發作。只要一點點⋯⋯在你闔上眼之前，在你攥著自己的意識放手之際⋯⋯。

[motifcollector]

Reading the Sōseki novel Sanshirō, a Japanese classic from 1907, and the protagonist (young man about to start university) helps a woman he meets on the train find a hotel, but the hotel employees assume they're together and give them one room and he's too shy to correct them 😭 Can't believe the "there was only one bed!" fanfic trope is this old lmao

[ochoislas]

Ni cristiano, ni budista, ni tampoco confuciano, en una barreduela mercadeaba con mis escritos. ¿Qué aroma me impregnó de los jardines del arte? ¿Cuántos prados corrí por campos de la poesía? En las cenizas del libro el libro vive, lo sé; en mundos sin ley puede la ley renacer, cierto. Mata a los dioses a golpes, dispersa su sombra: sabios o necios, resurgirán claros del vacío informe.

                            [6 de octubre de 1916]

La vía verdadera es oscura, y aún lejana y recóndita; discurriendo vaciedades, cruzaré pasado y presente. Aguas azules, montañas verdes… ¿qué saben del ser? Guarda del cielo, sostén de la tierra: sólo inanidad. Vagos colores vespertinos; luna ausente de la hierba. Inquietas voces otoñales; viento morador del bosque. Ojos, oídos, olvidados ambos, mi cuerpo abandonado; solo en el vacío canto un aire de nubes blancas.

                            [20 de noviembre de 1916]

Natsume Sōseki

[theforgottendaydreamer]

Had to read "Kokoro" by Natsume Sōseki for my Japanese Lit exam. The whole time I was thinking about Gojō as Sensei, and Getō as K... it hurt.

[heartoppression]

A dark shadow seemed always to be following me.

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro (trans. Edwin McClellan)