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I'm gonna be real, this Tumblr blog was originally just made for shits and giggles. I somehow became an admin on two wikis of rather well known Bungō series, I think the past three years has been wild, I feel like I rekindled my love for literature.

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I just finished my thesis so I've been continuing a few projects! Apologies for the silence :'0

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Hi Mark, I'd like to ask if Gearbane Orangutan is a reference to Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue? If yes, can you give high fives to the people responsible for the card?

It very much is. I was actually asking a few weeks ago in The Pit, how many people would get that reference.

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when the moon comes out, floating let us go and set the boat afloat. wavelets may rock the boat, there may be just a little breeze. out there in the sea it may be dark, the sound of water dripping from the oars so intimate when you hear it, ...breaking in between your words. the moon may listen intently, May come down a bit closer, when we kiss it will be just above our heads. you will talk some more, lover's talk without reason talk while pouting, I will listen to it all, ...without stopping my hands from rowing. when the moon comes out, floating let us go and set the boat afloat. wavelets may rock the boat, there may be just a little breeze.

― Nakahara Chuuya, On the Lake

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"I love Him. If He should die, I would die with Him. He belongs to no one. He belongs to me. I would rather kill Him than give Him away."

― Dazai Osamu, An Urgent Appeal

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The Kanagawa Museum of Literature has launched a website where you can view digital scans of Nakajima Atsushi's works including letters, manuscripts and even art!

There's a lot of interesting stuff that they've uploaded including this self-portrait that he drew! Check it out here:

https://www.kanabun.or.jp/nakajima/

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This is either going to be fun or a complete nightmare. I'm kind of hoping that it's going to be a western author since it's Asagiri's strongest suit

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"Life's a farce, so we might as well make it a good one."

– Dazai Osamu, The Flowers of Buffoonery

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"If you see Dostoevsky, tell him that I love him."

– Leo Tolstoy, Letter to Strakhov dated September 26, 1880

Happy birthday to Fyodor Dostoevsky!!

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Life update, I've been very busy. My laptop charger died, my laptop's SSD died and I am swamped with thesis work, apologies for the slow work.

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"I could only fall silent. Like me, he too was walking through darkness, but he believed that if there is darkness there must be light."

– Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, Spinning Gears

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"Life is short, so fall in love, maidens!"

– Yoshii Isamu, Gondola Song

Happy birthday to Count Yoshii Isamu!

This quote doesn't come from a poem or a prose work but rather a romantic ballad written by Yoshii which was incredibly popular during the Taishō era. The song would be popularized in the Kurosawa Akira film 'Ikiru' (生きる) sung by Shimura Takashi which you can see in the video above.

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"For me literature is omnipotent…. Literature is so deeply rooted in this point of origin that, should I somehow lose faith in literature, I will have lost faith in humanity itself."

— Sakaguchi Ango, A Personal View of Japanese Culture

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"If I say that at least once more we should meet before we die, will you nod in response?"

— Ishikawa Takuboku

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"I barely qualify as human. Will I ever be a functional member of society?"

– Dazai Osamu, The Flowers of Buffoonery

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This has truly been a Bungō Stray Dogs

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Like author, like idol. The pose was based on a p famous image of Akutagawa wwww