thom space

What has

struck me most in reading The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio

Mishima is my lack of pertinent perspective in quantifying the

philosophic themes of the novel. The fact that Mishima is a Japanese

author writing to a Japanese audience in what could be an exclusively

Japanese cultural context makes a traditional analysis of the novel

impossible. It can not be assumed that simply because the novel was

written in the early 1950’s that Mishima is familiar with the themes

of philosophy up until that time, but at the same time it cannot be

assumed that he has not. It is quite possible that he is familiar

with the works of Plato,Nietzsche and Sartre and , and with the

themes that he has woven into his novel I would like to assume that

he is.
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I will be in a class for the next three

and a half weeks that I will most thoroughly enjoy because my reading

list includes the following books:

The Temple of The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

The chances that you would know that rkd + the numbers of our home address would equal a word that in turn would allow you to pass is quite unlikely. but if you did it would look like this p/w: rkd####

I hope that this information is quite unhelpful (wink wink, nudge nudge)

So now we are in a super whack

situation. Terrorist attacks happen, Nation reacts to terrorist

attacks, We grieve and are shocked. We attack terrorist, terrorist

react, we are shocked and stricken with Anthrax. We all seemed to

think that we were going to be stuck in a perpetual cycle of tit for

tat with the terrorists, i.e. that the US retaliation for the WTC

would only provoke more attacks from the terrorists and that, in

turn, would provoke more attacks from us, ad infinitum. This is

apparently not going to be the case, because before we get a chance

to respond we will all be infected with Anthrax and will die. I think

this is a lousy way to avoid war. I would rather just listen to

Anthrax on the radio, which I am doing right now as a tribute to our

impending doom. This is super whack. If first Tom

Brokaw and Tom

Dachel who next?…
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I was just thinking about my next block (symbolic logic for those of you who are not in the know) and it occurred to me that world peace may be at hand. All we need to do is reduce all of mans natural languages to their symbolic form and presto mutual understanding and global peace. Or alternatively, I suppose, it could turn out that the arguments we use to justify our actions are not only unsound but also possibly not even valid. humm. Maybe it is better that we leave our natural languages in place with all of their built in murkiness because woe be it to confuse matters further with clearly understood sentences. heh.