#15 機械たちの時間 MACHINES DESIRANTES
I agree with Major that emotion or thinking is a fatal drawback for a weapon...but タチコマ is so cute... must they retire?Q_Q
#14 全自動資本主義 ¥€$
“この国を今一匹の亡霊が徘徊している．資本主義という名の亡霊が”
フェム and Major somehow look alike, and I was kind of confused, unable to determine who's who. :P
The last scene in which the screne of Togusa's wife's computer aroused some discussion between OnlyBlue, davidyu, and me. Is it only an irony or echo to the them capitalism or is it that the computer is hacked? I prefer the former interpretation, thougth.
By the way, I really begin to be fond of バトー. :D
#13≠テロリスト NOT EQUAL
ohoh exciting game.
Time is really a myth, nothing would go as one intends. If one thing would go wrong, it would.:P
Ghost in the Shell
Standalone COmplex
#12タチコマの家出 映画監督の夢 ESCAPE FROM
タチコマはかわいいね。でも、家出に至ってはやりすぎるんじゃない？9課の誰かに苛めたんですか？それども、やはり天然のオイルのせいですか？：P
Still a peaceful episode. I agree with the director; it's the most convenient way to realize one's dream in one's mind. But, no justification, this does help lazy people escape from realistic barriers and perhaps could be called as cheating.
(Well, I may be too serious, haha.)
Pluto
#11 亜成虫の森で
トグサはまだまだですよ、一人前に。
No matter children or adults, human beings are all confined more or less, well, in prisons built by humans themselves, with excuses or reasons. Just like the facility, while it claims to do good for those children who can't adapt to the outer society, it also uses children's talent for its own end. Another example is the movie/manga BR, those who created the game should play it first if the end of the game is so justified as they claimed. Next time when critics want to criticize youths or children for any weakness, I hope those "sages" could think about or , better, give any explanation for this sick soceity structured by themselves.
These days I become more tolerable with selfishness. I think I do become mature. However, I become more intolerable with hypocrisy, incongruence and excuses at the same time. Call me cynical, I won't mind.
Well, well, compared to Jungle Cruise, this episode llooks like a happy bivouac. :P
Major is really cool and I find that I am indeed fond of バトー, who's kind of funny in this episode. By the way, タチコマ is very cute in some way, like naughty children. :D
Pluto
#10 密林航路にうってつけの日
In this episode バトー is really cool. And I assume the playwright doesn't like CIA much. :P
(USA may be the largest terrorism state, under ignorant democracy it's prabable!)
Missing in the jungle, there is no exit. Resuming the nonexisting war, killing innocent people, indeed the killer commited crime. But the CIA which wants to conceal the fact that it produced the killing and cruel war is shamelessly guilty.
Stand Alone Complex #9
This episode is excellent, especially the virtual chatting room. And the manner of the debate is somewhat near that of the original manga, complex and changing.
Moreover, there's another interesting viewpoiint about the sex of the 笑い男. If one uses the male 義体, then even one has female ghost/soul originally, it would be hard to determine one's sex. Perhaps only with such consciousness of confusing sex identity can a soceity reach sexual equality. (I know, I know, I am too innocent and people always find their ways to torture others. But well, it's just a conjecture.)
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/gunslingergirl/wokefromdreaming.htm
Woke from dreaming, walking when dreaming; living when dreaming; living when dying. We'll kill if need to.
That's why I never want to wake up.
Woke From Dreaming
performer: the delgados
Woke from dreaming but it took convincing
I was shaking screaming I was still alive
And you were picking strangers by the side of roadways
Little little let the danger unfold
You can do what you do if you think you'll take it
You can do what you do if you are that way inclined
Suffer with silk as the pressur's tighter
You have skin pale as milk with the pressure on
My heart is getting heavy and my hands are weak now
Hatred lifting and I'll start to weep now
You can do what you do if you think you'll take it
You can do what you do if you are that way inclined
Just for a moment can we take a little time
Just stop for a moment can we make this moment mine
I've tried to let go but I've never had much to say
Take a day take them all now
Just for a moment can we take a little time
Just stop for a moment can we look inside this mind
We try to control but we never quite know what's there
We will kill if we need to
Yuri Chika Lyrics - I Cry Lyrics
Yuri Chica
sweet voice, sad lyrics. I hardly have sleepless nights though no one hears me cry for I hide.
I Cry
Yuri Chika
Every night I find it so hard to sleep
Cause I keep thinking of you
And these feelings from deep
Oh baby I try to hide all these feelings for you
I keep them all out of sight
I don't know what else to do
So I cry
But nobody hears me I cry
It's my only solution I cry
To all this confusion I cry
With all of my heart I cry
Sometimes I wonder in the blink of a night
Would you be waiting to love me
Would you give it a try
I don't know how it's to show you
That I'm not good be real
I'll be eternally faithful
Forever I feel
So I cry
But nobody hears me I cry
It's my only solution I cry
To all this confusion I cry
With all of my heart I cry
No one can tell me that I may be wrong
Cause I know in my heart
This feeling still running strong
Can't get you out of my head
Can't get you out of my heart
Can't get you out of my life
No matter it fell apart
So I cry
But nobody hears me I cry
It's my only solution I cry
To all this confusion I cry
With all of my heart I cry
But nobody hears me I cry
It's my only solution I cry
To all this confusion I cry
With all of my heart I cry
© 2002 AmethystLyrics.com
Ursula K. Le Guin
destruction, desolation; something we may never think during the passion of war.
At Meta Lake
There are no mirrors here.
This is a labyrinth where none of the ways leads in or out
but all the arrows point the same direction .
It is easy to compare to Hell,
but then where are you?
Hell has to do with justice.
This has not.
This has nothnig to do with us at all except as we are fir, are fern, are trout, are jay, are elk.
The bones of deer are in this ash.
This is not punishment.
We have no claim on it. It does not regard us.
Our crimes can only imitate.
It is we who hold the mirror up.
This is not Hell.
I don't know why; it's just difficult for me to appreciate Shakespeare.
Anyway, let tragedy be tragedy, life be life.
"She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her that she did pity them." --Othello
"But words are words. I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear." --Brabanzio
"She has deceived her father, and may thee." --Brabanzio
"It's sillness to live when to live is torment; and then have
we a prescription to die when death is our physician." --Roderigo
"For I am nothing if not critical." --Iago
"If that the earth could teem with woman's tears.
Iachdrop she falls would prove a crocodile." --Othello
"Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well,
Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,
Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinable gum" --Othello
squadron: a unit of military organization:
prattle: : to utter or make meaningless sounds suggestive of the chatter of children
taper: : a slender candle
promulgate: : to make known by open declaration : PROCLAIM
unbonneted: bareheaded
palpable: perceptible
Anthropophagi: man-eaters
alacrity: promptness in response
descry: discover
egregiously: distinguished
infirmity: frailty
ocular: done or perceived by the eye
Sheepwell/ Lope de Vega
well, well, this kind of things happens. We live; we oppress and are oppressed. Human beings just can change the way they do things.
"For after all, all they want after giving us so much trouble is their pleasure at night and our sorrow in the morning."--Laurencia
"Only women know how to take revenge. We shall drink the enemy's blood."--Pascuala
harangue: lecture
ghoul: a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses
marquise: a gem or a ring setting or bezel usually elliptical in shape but with pointed ends
bluster: : to utter with noisy self-assertiveness
licentiate: : an academic degree ranking below that of doctor given by some European universities
coxcomb: : an academic degree ranking below that of doctor given by some European universities
capon: a castrated male chicken
strut: to walk with a proud gait
dreg: the last remaining part
undaunted: courageously resolute especially in the face of danger or difficulty : not discouraged
Desiderius Erasmus
Interesting, interesting.
I believe that all happiness is sprung from folly.
"In short, I am the one that wise man must come to--
I repeat, he must come to me-- if he ever wants to
be a father."
"But to destroy the illusions in this fashion would
spoil the whole play."
"True, all these images are unreal, but this play
cannot be performed in any other way."
"True prudence, on the other hand, recognizes
human limitationsa nd does not strive to leap
beyond them; it is willing to run with the herd,
to overlook faults tolerantly or to share them
in a friendly spirit. But, they say, that is
exactly what we mean by folly. I will hardly
deny it-- as long as they will reciprocate by
admitting that this is exactly what it means
to perform the play of life."
"But shame, disgrace, reproaches, curses do harm
only insofar as they are perceived."
"Nor was there anything wrong with the judgement
of the Greek who was so mad that he sat alone
in the theater for whole days on end, laughing,
applauding, enjoying himself, because he thought
that wonderful tragedies were being acted there,
whereas nothing at all was being performed."
"They are wonderfully clever in thinking up some
new way to deceive themselves."
"No one gives thanks for escaping from folly."
"You will not die badly if you live well."
"Quite the contrary--not to be deceived is most
miserable of all."
perk up: to gain in vigor or cheerfulness.
nectar: the drink of the Greek and Roman gods.
nepenthe: Legendary drup causing oblivion.
Trophonius: Seat of a particularly awesome oracle
the isle of the Blest: The mythical and remote islands where, according
to Greek tradition, some favorites of the gods dwelt in immortality
and bliss.
moly: a mythical herb with a black root, white blossoms, and magical powers
nepenthe: a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of
pain or sorrow
Methe: Drunkenness
Apaedia: Stupidity
Philautia:Selflove
Kolakia: Flattery
Lethe: Forgetfulness
Hedone: Pleasure
Anoia: Madness
Tryphe: Luxury
Comos: Rowdiness
Negreton Hypnon: Sweet Sleep
commodity: : something useful or valued
aegis: a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was
associated with Zeus and Athena
propagate: to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction
faunt: source
tetrad: a group or arrangement of four
pontiff: bishop
insipid: tasteless
pauper: the poor
Helicon: Mythical mountain, home of the Muses.
sanctum: a sacred place.
ineluctable: inevitable
be tinged with: to affect or modify in character
codger:an often mildly eccentric and usually elderly fellow
cadaverous: gaunt
billets-doux: love letter
litigious: prone to engage in lawsuits
asinine: of, relating to, or resembling an ass
wily: sly
nincompoop: fool
unvarnished: plain
antic: an attention-drawing often wildly playful or funny act or action
surly: arrogant
ilk: same
syllogism: a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of
a major and a minor premise and a conclusion
(as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue;
therefore kindness is laudable")
parricide: killing the parents
impeccably: perfectly
exhilarated: excited
gaut: : a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints,
deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an
excessive amount of uric acid in the blood
accost: : to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way
cesspool: : an underground reservoir for liquid waste (as household sewage)
chagrin: disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation,
disappointment, or failure
be rife with: be abundant of
emolument: the returns arising from office or employment usually
in the form of compensation or perquisites
odious: exciting or deserving hatred or repugnance
uxorious: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife
braggadocio: empty boasting
obsequious: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
daub with: to coat with
The prologue is more interesting than I had thought.
At least it protrayed how traumatic the process is for
the king to become so mysogynous.:p
"He has guarded me and tried to keep me pure and chaste,
not realizing that nothing can prevent or alter what is
predestined and that when a woman desires something, no
one can stop her."
"Life has two days: one peace, one wariness,
And has two sides: worry and happiness.
Ask him who taunts us with adversity,
"Does fate, save those worthy of note, oppress?
Don't you see that the blowing, raging storms
Only the tallest of the trees beset,
And of earth's many green and barren lots,
Only the ones with fruits with stones are hit,
And of the countless stars in heaven's vault
None is eclipsed except the moon and sun?
You thought well of the days, when they were good,
Oblivious to the ills destined for one.
You were deluded by the peaceful nights,
Yet in the peace of night does sorrow stun."
"Her life is forfeit to you."
The man's life in the first night's story could be
won back by three stories. Does it mean that one's
life is as cheap as words or words are as precious
as people's life?
Trepidation: Fear
deftly: detexterous
The part that mixs humanity and animal features is quite interesting, but how could one blame an animal with the Knight Measure? Anyway, it's the incongruity that is interesting.
Mea culpa!: I'm guilty
noose: a loop with a running knot that binds closer the more it is drown.
bravado: a pretense of bravery
"Sinner and prophet perish alike"
我的中古世紀詩以此結束。一切皆有幻滅時期，四大皆空。
mitsvah: sacrifice
Adonai-Yireh: Provision of the lord
iniquity: a wicked act or thing : SIN
Akedah: sacrifice
rampart: a protective barrier : BULWARK
palisade: a fence of stakes especially for defense
mace: an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg（錘矛）
aureate: of a golden color or brilliance
mottle: : to mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
fraudulent: characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : DECEITFUL
dire: exciting horror
loiter: to delay an activity with aimless idle stops and pauses : DAWDLE
bailiff: an official employed by a British sheriff to serve writs and make arrests and executions
Annwn: The otherworld of Welsh myth
grizzle: to make grayish
quim: vagina
pasty: pale
skein: : a loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel
A prayer that can't reach.
假使、假使、再多的假設也不是事實。
也改變不了結局。
不能在此停下嗎？
It's a prayer that didn't reach.
For Instance
兩人故事的最後一頁，
從撕下來的手裡滑落
掉進海裡
因為是無法讓人得知而結束的戀情
只能收集深藏在
星屑裡的親吻
因清晨到來而遠離的地平線
會以嶄新的臉孔迎接孤獨的胸膛
假使 往南走 如花綻放的光芒
也無法照耀那戀情
假使 向在清晨消逝的 露水般的新月祈求
治癒這傷的願望 也無法實現
彎曲的手指 如此緊密地握著
雖然可以哭泣 兩人卻都
哭不出來
活著的這件事 就像沒有地圖的旅行吧
如今胸中一片空虛 但這樣其實也無妨吧
活著的這件事 就像沒有地圖的旅行吧
假使 往東走 如雲般的羽翼
也無法承載那戀情
假使 乘著往空中飛昇 如雨般的浪頭
治癒這傷的祈禱 也無法被應允
假使 往南走 如花綻放的光芒
也無法照耀那戀情
假使 向在清晨消逝的 露水般的新月祈求
治癒這傷的願望 也無法實現
無法被應允的祈禱