-- previous posts on this ongoing conversation with myself: here, here, here -- plus, images behind the cut (none large, but a fair number of them) -- NOTE: some images missing, lost in journal-transfer
When I'm rambling like this, the point isn't really to persuade anyone, though I know I can take that tone like I'm an authority of some sort & trying to bring you 'round to believe in my point. (Sorry.)
Maybe it doesn't matter if there's a hundred-percent bulletproof logic to anything I'm positing, maybe it doesn't matter if there are half again as many exceptions to prove every rule, so long as maybe someone (other than me, because it'd suck to be doing this all by my lonesome) stops and says, what else have I taken for granted, that's built into our cultural biases?
( Language and charms; a few additional notes about Mushishi... ) ( About the medicine seller; exorcism in Mo No No Ke... ) ( Vengeful spirits and demons; ep1: zashiki-warashi... ) ( Forgiving the banished; ambiguities and loyalties... )
Or we could just sum it all up as: if you meet the Kusuri-uri on the road, slice him.
When I'm rambling like this, the point isn't really to persuade anyone, though I know I can take that tone like I'm an authority of some sort & trying to bring you 'round to believe in my point. (Sorry.)
Maybe it doesn't matter if there's a hundred-percent bulletproof logic to anything I'm positing, maybe it doesn't matter if there are half again as many exceptions to prove every rule, so long as maybe someone (other than me, because it'd suck to be doing this all by my lonesome) stops and says, what else have I taken for granted, that's built into our cultural biases?
( Language and charms; a few additional notes about Mushishi... ) ( About the medicine seller; exorcism in Mo No No Ke... ) ( Vengeful spirits and demons; ep1: zashiki-warashi... ) ( Forgiving the banished; ambiguities and loyalties... )
Or we could just sum it all up as: if you meet the Kusuri-uri on the road, slice him.