revengeisalie | 十九 [Voice Post]

Yesterday's curse was pretty interesting! "Rhymes" are a totally new thing to me - we don't really have them in traditional Japanese poetry. It's more about syllable counts and stuff. But a lot of people seemed at least familiar with it. I wonder - what cultures are they native to? Does it have anything to do with the language they are written in? Will there be Japanese poems with rhymes in the future?

And though I wasn't affected, the curse day seemed to want to give me a nudge or something - at any rate, my visit at the library yielded me the kutone shirika! It's an epic from the Ezo people. That's pretty much all I knew about it. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure where from. Maybe I picked it up from some conversation I overheard in a tea house or something. It certainly wasn't part of my education, because, you know, the Ezo people - they're just "those barbarians up north" to most. It's a whole legend told in verses. There are some pretty vivid descriptions in it! Like in this passage:

" So this was our Castle!
Never could I have guessed
How beautiful it was.
The fencing done long ago
Standing so crooked;
The new fencing
So high and straight.
The old fencing like a black cloud,
The new fencing like a white cloud.
They stretched around the castle
Like a great mass of cloud--
So pleasant, so lovely!
The crossbars laid on top
Zigzagged as the fence ran."

... that shall be enough - guess most of you are pretty tired of poems since yesterday? Ahahah. I tried my hand at poetry a few times, but I don't think I'm very good at it. Guess it's not really where my talents lie. ~~I wonder if I have any talent, really.~~

Anyway! I heard there are flowers blooming in the gardens. Anyone want to go?

(OOC: So it's really spelled kutune shirka, but not like Rin knows that.)

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Well, guess I'll try and pay attention, if I hear something like that, then.

Today's culture isn't really worth learning about anyway. It's nothing but ~~corrupt~~ shallow crowd-pleasing.

But do what you want.

What? I wouldn't dismiss an entire era that way.

It's a lot easier when you're living in it, I assure you.

Really? But then you have a much closer look on its complexities.

... on the other hand, I suppose if one is around it every day, the interest in those might not exist.

Eh, I guess so. Alls I know is it ain't worth investing the time in.

Really? Why not?

... Because there's more important things to think about. Like paying bills and keeping the electricity running and eating.

It's true that those are more important, but do they take up so much time?

Yep.

Recession'll do that.

Oh.

I see.

But hey, it's not all bad. Menial labor for below minimum wage is surprisingly refreshing after you've been doing it long enough to convince yourself it is.

Ahhahahah... s-sure.

And there's the exercise to consider, too.

Better than growing lazy and content like the bourgeois fat cat bureaucrats.

Exercise is important, I agree.

One has to keep the body fit to survive the treacherous workforce of modern-day Japan.

Is from my end of it.

And you couldn't change your situation?

Life's rough. Things happen. ~~Conspiracies. Things blowing up. Assassins. Super Senshi. Maniacal priests. That sorta thing.~~

Mh. They do.

Doesn't mean one has to just sit down and accept them!

Oh, you're right, quite the contrary. You can't fix something like THAT in a day, though.

Not arguing with that.

Exactly. So the process of weathering through these hardships is all a part of the process to put things RIGHT with the world!

Of course. Someone has to make a beginning.

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