yay for having some time during the semester break to do things like this :D

( Everyone will either keep their mouth shut, or just skim this essay of mine from the beginning. Because I trust you. )

( Even I, who declared that love and marriage are undesired by me, still envied those two in that moment. )

I'm always somwhat in awe about Shige's writing in those essays, and love to read the translations.
Since I havn't seen this essay translated yet, I decided to give it a try . Maybe others like to read it as well, so here it is.

( I would rather come down with an illness, than excessively injecting a vaccination against people. )

It's one of the newer essays, that according to the list, was still not translated...and I couldn't resist.

( A poet who even now attracts a lot of fans. His view of the world is unique, and I was quite influenced by it, too. )

With this, the list of the essay translation up to now is finally complete. yay.

( No one has the right to do such a thing....No matter what. Because even I don't want to have such a thing done to me. )

( Despair and hope, beginning and end, life and death. Here is a repetition of such contradictory things. )

Apology to my flist about suddenly starting to make these kinds of posts in the past days, but I don't want to get another LJ for it, I want my translations HERE in my original LJ. And since I am studying Japanology, it's kinda obvious that maybe sooner or later I'd start posting stuff like translations and such. So you hast have to skip those ( Read more... )

I love university, because I love my japanese classes. However, I must admit that I really like having the free time during my semester break now, having finally the time to be translating whatever I want (not somethign from a textbook). It's so much fun!

( At times like that I know what love is. )