今朝のテレビで大リーガーの日本人投手が三振を奪うシーンが繰り返されて映っていた。その時の現地のアナウンサーが、スウィニング イズ メッスと繰り返していたのが耳に残った。これは、swinging is messと言っているように聞こえるのだがおそらく、swingin…

The Whereabouts of Freedom Written by Mr.Takeda Seiji What then, in a nutshell, is the dominant motif or subject underlying this major work of Hegel? One may say this is the questfor the whereabouts of freedom. The modern age has thrown up…

World's Great Books Revival Projectより 蛯原徳夫「ロマン・ロラン研究」第三文明社、1981年刊をもとに、希有な作家ロマン・ロランを紹介します。 ○ ロランが示した日常生活の規範 一、生活に目的を定めること、一つの仕事をおのれに課すこと 二、その目的…

When you came home from tennis school, still left the afterglow of your workout, and told me "I was home now", you were a girl and innocent. I wanted to hug you with my eyes. Her skin was smooth, firm and round. How many years has it been …

The Whereabouts of Freedom Written by Mr.Takeda Seiji The Phenomenology of Spirit, written in 1807 by G.W. Hegel while teaching at the University of Jena, is the philosopher's most celebrated work. It has had a strong influence upon very m…

Sartre used to be the center of my philosophical interest. When I was a cliant of his, I was drawn into Marxism, and when I became familiar with the political movements of student power, I needed to have a position of my own. Sartre also r…

I started thinking about breaking into my own fantasy swamp. Because it was an environment where nothing has changed even if I had been spending it like this until then. I came up with the idea of coming to the exit of society and followin…

In an abandoned place so far away Even though I brought you here, you were still fine I would say arigato, thank you I felt sorry to see you laughing with such a strange look on your face. I thought You might not know how grateful I was to…

After living for 70 years, what I think about now is how happy I am to have survived 70 years. It's not that I want to thank anyone in particular, but I want to be happy that I'm living a normal and comfortable life. This may be the best t…

After passing the exam, I abandoned my habit of studying stoically and devoted myself to reading complete works of world literature. When I imagine my life after retirement, the first thing that comes to mind is reading. The reason why ``r…

I realized that my yearning to go abroad stemmed from my immersion in American pop music when I was in junior high school, so I listened to hit songs from that time on YouTube. PPM's songs have touched my heart even now. The world was so s…

It had been reminding me of myself when I was in middle school. The reason why it seemed that self-awareness develops almost coincided with junior high school was probably because the environment changes in elementary school and coming int…

Miss A lived in a world different from the world I had lived in until then. At first she looked like a very well-bred young lady, but she wasn't from a very wealthy family. Being an only child, she must have been taken care of. As a toddle…

I think we need literature to live. This is because the relationships in the real capitalist society have inhuman coercive power. We desperately need stories with warm hearts and dreams. It's okay to live in a dark world and suffer from ma…

As for my personal experience, I would like to self-evaluate my work at a local company for 38 years. I'm sure you'll be amazed that I still thinking about such things now, and that I am still dragging the past forever. You could say that …

I wrote in this blog yesterday that I spent 38 years as an office worker in a concentration camp, because I felt like I couldn't be saved unless I thought about the corporate environment that killed me and turned my life into a huge waste.…

英語を学習する時に、よくトレーニングという言葉が使われる。定年退職後の初期高齢者にとって、トレーニングという言葉を聞いただけでうんざりしてしまう。ちょっと勘弁してくれという気持ちがする。だったら何がいいかと考えて、「馴染む」がいいと閃いた…

When I was an office worker, a man stood in front of me. For the first time in my life, I found myself being treated like a failed child. I thought it was natural for me to live my life the way I felt, but he belittled me as if he was fund…

When I came out of the ``concentration camp'' in the industrial park on the outskirts of the city where I had lived for 38 years, I found that the city was still the same, and I didn't immediately notice anything that had changed. I didn't…

The first call was from K. Since K called her at work, they only talked briefly about business matters, and it felt like he had decided to email what he really wanted to talk about. That night, they texted each other's cell phone numbers a…

英語の文法書をここの所読み続けている。writingのための文法書なのだが、それはwritingで初めて文法が現実的になる、という事実に納得したからだ。英会話から英語を始めても身に付かないことを心底納得したからだ。文法によって日本語との違いが論理的に明…

Although half my life had risen and fallen irregularly, by now it just had been nothing but ordinary, neither good nor bad. It takes something extraordinary to be satisfied with the ordinary. It can't be helped that I feel unsatisfied with…

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the Ea…

I already got used to it. 上記文は間違いである。なぜなら、過去形は現在を含まないので、現在は慣れていないことになる。alreadyとあるから普通既に慣れている状態であるはずで、この文は矛盾した文ということになる。正しい文は現在完了形で書かなければ…

A time to spend alone in a dimly lit room begins. Even the routine of boiling water and brewing coffee, filled with alone time, made K feel happy. Reading the newspaper or turning on the TV will ruined his nice mood. He is free because he …

K had been a salaried worker for thirty-eight years, and there was no feeling other than that he had been persevering. The good thing was that he could receive it even if the welfare pension was small. Combined with his wife's pension, he …

In an abandoned place so far away Even though I brought you here, you were still fine I would say arigato, thank you I felt sorry to see you laughing with such a strange look on your face. I thought You might not know how grateful I was to…

When I finally managed to get out of the sad, painful, a period of loneliness on the verge of death, and attend to high school, my mother was probably desperately trying to support me. Not knowing what to do, she consulted my grandfather a…

a vegetable consisting of the small compact bud of a variety of cabbage. さまざまなキャベツの小さくコンパクトな芽からなる野菜 Brussels Sprouts[芽きゃべつ]は、村上春樹の小説「かえるくん、東京を救う」の＃20の表題。以下、Brussels Sproutsが使…

Hiroko: I saw on the news that the Children's Cafeteria has become a topic of convesation. Syoh: By 'Children's Cafeteria,' do you mean a cafeteria that only children can go to? Like where they have special kid's meals? Hiroko: No. 'Childr…