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Me: 163, kanji: 121. Ha! I seem to be winning.
The Patriots and Redeemers in Japan just about fried my brain. I don’t think I’ll be continuing with it. First of all, the blurb on the back is somewhat misleading, as this is not really a history book as much as a really long historiographical essay. Even so, the writing jumps back and forth between clear and completely incomprehensible. It’s not even just jargon, which is fine with me, I read academic publications, I know you have to insert ‘discourse’ in there somewhere to get grants. It’s the annoying tendency to complicate your phrases when it’s totally unnecessary. I should have stopped at the ‘reservoir of circumstances’. The last straw was a section entitled ‘A Matrix of Motivational Determinants’. Ggaaahh. Back on the shelf you go.
Tonight I have to do battle with my bank and then go to the library to pick up a couple of books on hold for me (including something by Catherynne Valente, very exciting).
If you go here and click on 'play', it's very scary: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php
The Patriots and Redeemers in Japan just about fried my brain. I don’t think I’ll be continuing with it. First of all, the blurb on the back is somewhat misleading, as this is not really a history book as much as a really long historiographical essay. Even so, the writing jumps back and forth between clear and completely incomprehensible. It’s not even just jargon, which is fine with me, I read academic publications, I know you have to insert ‘discourse’ in there somewhere to get grants. It’s the annoying tendency to complicate your phrases when it’s totally unnecessary. I should have stopped at the ‘reservoir of circumstances’. The last straw was a section entitled ‘A Matrix of Motivational Determinants’. Ggaaahh. Back on the shelf you go.
Tonight I have to do battle with my bank and then go to the library to pick up a couple of books on hold for me (including something by Catherynne Valente, very exciting).
If you go here and click on 'play', it's very scary: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php