garlic bread, avocado, and smoked bacon
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incandescensThe weather was all wind and rain today, making me very glad that I didn't have to go out in it. Instead, did the usual Sunday tasks, put off the ironing for another week (I know, I know, I'll be moaning next Sunday), etcetera.
Supper was garlic bread with avocado and smoked bacon. Utterly delicious. Probably not the healthiest of meals, but utterly and totally delicious.
I had a marvellous dream last night, involving becoming a martial artist, and carrying round Princess Leia as a baby, and I wish I could remember more of it.
BTX is being an occasionally surprisingly adult manga to read -- in terms of some of the themes it brings up, rather than in terms of anything involving sex, I add hastily -- especially given the mangaka's previous piece, Saint Seiya. (Though admittedly that got more complex as it went on, especially by the time it hit the Hades arc.) Besides the obvious themes of brotherly bonding, radiance of the hero's heart, reliance on friends and helping friends, which are admittedly common to most if not all shounen manga, it also brushes a few deeper points. One character actually lies about another character's dying message for his brother. Another comes to the conclusion that it is better to preach a religion which he personally has no faith in, in order to give hope to others and give their lives meaning and structure, than to publicly deny it as he once did in the face of his friend's death. Interesting. Not quite as obvious a series as it looks. Okay, it is obvious and shounen in a lot of ways. But even so.
---
The Man In The Golden Mask
[...]
"His name is Monsieur Josserand,
Un gentilhomme, you understand,
But noble not in line or grace;
He rakes the bounty of his land,
Trades it for gold, and gold for place.
Chevalier's ribbons he would gain,
But since the Grand Chevalierie
Just now contains no vacancy,
He must make one by coup de main."
Porthos put in, "Yes, that is fine,
But he has not a noble line!
The rules are very clearly stated."
"Yes, now the task is complicated,"
The masked man said, "and when you know
The shape that stands above the foe,
And understand the game at full,
Your promises I will annul.
The center-scheme of Monsieur Josserand
Is bags of gold for Cardinal Mazarin;
The Minister of State shifts papers well,
And, for some tens of thousand louis d'or,
Will make him nobler than he was before.
The times are strange, my friends. One cannot tell
Who owes position to the Cardinal,
And if you are his men, then that is all
I have to say: let's go our ways, or fight."
"Of course we'll fight!" said D'Artagnan, "but not
For Cardinal or Nobles, but for right
And honor, as a worthy battle's fought!"
"You have the right, friend Gascon, and I ought
Have fought it single 'gainst whatever foes;
Yet welcome valiant fellowmen, because
I tire when fighting more than ten; because
I'm melancholy when alone; because
Time's rapier scrapes me at the bone; because
I am no longer young as once I was."
[...]
-- John M Ford
Supper was garlic bread with avocado and smoked bacon. Utterly delicious. Probably not the healthiest of meals, but utterly and totally delicious.
I had a marvellous dream last night, involving becoming a martial artist, and carrying round Princess Leia as a baby, and I wish I could remember more of it.
BTX is being an occasionally surprisingly adult manga to read -- in terms of some of the themes it brings up, rather than in terms of anything involving sex, I add hastily -- especially given the mangaka's previous piece, Saint Seiya. (Though admittedly that got more complex as it went on, especially by the time it hit the Hades arc.) Besides the obvious themes of brotherly bonding, radiance of the hero's heart, reliance on friends and helping friends, which are admittedly common to most if not all shounen manga, it also brushes a few deeper points. One character actually lies about another character's dying message for his brother. Another comes to the conclusion that it is better to preach a religion which he personally has no faith in, in order to give hope to others and give their lives meaning and structure, than to publicly deny it as he once did in the face of his friend's death. Interesting. Not quite as obvious a series as it looks. Okay, it is obvious and shounen in a lot of ways. But even so.
---
The Man In The Golden Mask
[...]
"His name is Monsieur Josserand,
Un gentilhomme, you understand,
But noble not in line or grace;
He rakes the bounty of his land,
Trades it for gold, and gold for place.
Chevalier's ribbons he would gain,
But since the Grand Chevalierie
Just now contains no vacancy,
He must make one by coup de main."
Porthos put in, "Yes, that is fine,
But he has not a noble line!
The rules are very clearly stated."
"Yes, now the task is complicated,"
The masked man said, "and when you know
The shape that stands above the foe,
And understand the game at full,
Your promises I will annul.
The center-scheme of Monsieur Josserand
Is bags of gold for Cardinal Mazarin;
The Minister of State shifts papers well,
And, for some tens of thousand louis d'or,
Will make him nobler than he was before.
The times are strange, my friends. One cannot tell
Who owes position to the Cardinal,
And if you are his men, then that is all
I have to say: let's go our ways, or fight."
"Of course we'll fight!" said D'Artagnan, "but not
For Cardinal or Nobles, but for right
And honor, as a worthy battle's fought!"
"You have the right, friend Gascon, and I ought
Have fought it single 'gainst whatever foes;
Yet welcome valiant fellowmen, because
I tire when fighting more than ten; because
I'm melancholy when alone; because
Time's rapier scrapes me at the bone; because
I am no longer young as once I was."
[...]
-- John M Ford
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:07 am (UTC)I saw a few Saint Seiya anime dub eps, and it has a very odd dubbing, which mostly delt with terms from the wrong time period being used...e.e
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Date: 2004-09-13 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:27 pm (UTC)I read your heading fine last night but this morning it turned into garlic breath. Mondays.
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:32 pm (UTC)It was translated in toto, as far as I can see. All 16 volumes of it seem to be out in French, and have been for a couple of years -- yes, vol 12 came out in 2001 -- and certainly all of Saint Seiya is out in French. I'm just not buying it in one glorious splurge of 16 volumes, but a few at a time.
Much as I would like to.
And yes, I have already gone and bought the whole of Saint Seiya. It has its moments. (And I like Virgo Shaka. Being a Virgo myself doesn't hurt.)