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Books that sell at secondhand bookstores are the valuable ones (Essay)
Nipping Disasters in the Buds
At one time, I was interested in the hippie lifestyle and was working hard to build up that kind of network. I fell in love with a woman I met then, but it broke up, and she chose another man and started a hippie lifestyle in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. She used to work at a publishing company and edited a memorial collection of essays for a fellow hippie who had died at that time.
I also bought a copy of that book, "Dirt on My Feet," but it was a terrible book, just a collection of miscellaneous writings by hippies who admired the man. I wrote her a letter: "This book doesn't deserve to be called a book. I admit that he seems to be a good guy, but it can't be called an objective book unless it can appeal to society about his achievements. What did you learn in the publishing industry?" She was extremely indignant about this letter.
At the very least, "Dirt on My Feet" would not sell for a price at a secondhand bookstore. It has no objectivity or generality. In other words, It’s appropriate that it was published for self-satisfaction, and it would have been good to share it as an internal document among colleagues. Incidentally, I also published a book around that time, and that book, "Nipping Disasters in the Buds" is selling for 30 times its original selling price at second-hand bookstores.
Rei Morishita
2024.06.10
古本屋で値段の付く本こそ価値がある(エッセイ)
私は一時期、ヒッピー的生活に憧れ、その種の人脈作りに励んでいた。その頃知り合った女性と恋愛関係に陥ったが破綻し、彼女は別の男を選んで、日本の長野県の山奥でヒッピー生活を始めた。出版社に勤めていたことのある彼女は、そのころ死んだヒッピー仲間の追悼文集の編集を行った。
私もその本「足に土」を一冊買ったが、出来は散々で、その男を慕うヒッピーたちの雑文を寄せ集めただけの本だった。私は彼女に手紙を書いた:「こんな本は、本と呼ぶに値しない。彼が優れているらしいことは認めるが、どんな業績かを社会に訴えることが書けなくては客観的な本とは言えない。貴女は、出版業界で何を学んだのか?」と。彼女はこの手紙にこの上なく憤慨していた。
少なくとも、「足に土」は、古本屋では値段が付くまい。客観性・一般性が皆無だからだ。つまりは自己満足のための出版で、仲間内で見せ合う内部資料にするのが妥当だったと言える。ちなみにその時期、私も本を出版したが、その本「災害の芽を摘む」は、古本屋で当初の売値の30倍の値段が付いている。
#secondhand bookstores#essay#rei morishita#hippie#terrible book#appeal to society#self-satisfaction#internal document
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Growing up is actually just enjoying the exact same things you enjoyed at 14 years old, but in a more gay way
#dan and phil#hp marauders#dan and phil's lesbian audience#dan howell#phil lester#terrible influence tour#lesbian marauders fan#marauders#my entire personality at 14 was reading books and watching YouTube#and now my personality is split 50/50 between gay harry potter fics and dan and phil#I'm 23 now btw#what's that one Chappell Roan line?#and even all the change it's somehow all the same
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THE FEELS Inspired by this scene in the Journal, which has not left my mind since i first read it:
Specifically, this part!
#I deeply apologize for my terrible writing I thought about the dialogue after making the animatic#They plague my mind rotten#gravity falls#my art#the book of bill#fiddauthor#stanford pines#animation#animatic#fiddleford mcgucket
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This is technically a failed review. It was THAT bad.
Thankfully, I got some books I actually want to read to make up for this, so I can finish the Dunton series finally.
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My (late) contribution for Make A Terrible Comic Day! I've been going to the library more often lately so this has been coming up a lot, cause I want something to read but have had trouble finding anything that I'm comfortable with.
If anyone has recommendations please please let me know because I am struggling.
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This is such a good video
#stanley pines#stanford pines#mabel pines#dipper pines#gravity falls#mabel isn’t terrible#grunkle stan#gf#book of bill
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Revelations
#gravity falls#book of bill#ford pines#stanford pines#bill cipher#billford#stanley pines#Stan pines#grunkle stan#mullet Stan#jimmy snakes#the pines twins#young! Stan and ford#daddy issues#daddy issues are a funny joke until you meet someone who actually seeks out terrible guys cause she has daddy issues😭#ford shirt says “i ate some pie” in case you were wondering
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Fiddlestan is objectively the best and funniest ship bc imagine you’re Ford finally back in your home dimension after thirty years and not only has your twin brother stolen your identity and committed multiple felonies under your name he’s also happily married to your research assistant who used to be madly in love with you but you took him for granted lmao get humbled loser
#and they’ve been working together to get you home this whole time so you can’t even have righteous anger#i imagine fiddlestan as the right in front of my salad meme#with them just constantly doing pda in front of ford who is having a terrible time#ALSO First Lady Grunkle Stan#gravity falls#the book of bill#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#stanley pines#stanford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddlestan
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Leo. Genuine question. How much time did you spend staring at Jason’s lips to figure that one out?
#‘my best friend has a specific tic where you can tell his mood by how his lips twitch. I know this because I stare at his mouth a lot’#these books really do try to be heterosexual#but they’re really really terrible at it actually#valgrace#leo valdez#jason grace#leo x jason#jason x leo#heroes of olympus#hoo#house of hades#hoh
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Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2
#sorry for the mercy/augustine sex jumpscare but i rly do think they have terrible sex every like. 200 years#they're like “Oh this Sucks I'm never doing this Again” and then hundreds of years pass and they get bored and they're like hmmm#maybe. it wasn't THAT bad.#the idea of bitching and complaining during sex is too funny to me#also my magnus design is pure indulgence#i just wanted to sexualise that old man. and he ended up looking like varric dragon age 😭😭#also also i gave Pal the fancy swoopy glasses that elphaba wears in the wicked trailer cos i think they're cool#okay now i gotta do some actual tagging#the locked tomb#tlt#gideon the ninth#gtn#harrow the ninth#htn#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrow nonagesimus#griddlehark#ianthe tridentarius#ianthe the third#mercymorn the first#augustine the first#palamedes sextus#palamedes the sixth#abigail pent#magnus quinn#john gaius#tlt shitposting#oh and i haven't finished Nona. i paused my reading because i found out there isn't a release date for the next book so I'm like#i need to make this last. i gotta ration this book out (<-stupid)
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Yes Ford is a monster fucker and yes Bill is even more of a monster fucker but just how much more is like, hard to process.
Bill is fucking with a creature which, from his perspective, has:
Infinite sides (euclidians are basic geometry)
Infinite sides that branch off into smaller extremities (do you think he realized at first the difference between a neck and a finger)
Is made out of several unique compounds (like what's the difference between flesh and bone and spit to him)
And he convinced that thing to do exactly what he wanted for the better part of it's natural life span. At one point had that thing hanging on his every word. Like I kinda get the hubris. If I successfully convinced an existential horror like that to do my bidding you couldn't talk me down from that high. And he says he likes me. Maybe like-likes me. I kinda get it.
You can argue that Bill likely came into contact with much stranger shit than humans during the entire period between meeting Ford and destroying his own home world, and you'd be right. But also I think while manipulating/romancing horrible space creatures might not be a completely new experience I also don't see how you could get bored of it.
#the book of bill#gravity falls#billford#i love how fucked up bill is he's such a terrible person#gonna draw fanart where i give him the bojack horseman treatment#no closure for you dickhead
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What do you like about the Diasomnia boys if I may ask?
I always love hearing about the different reasons people enjoy characters.
I mean, c'mon. he has split custody over Sebek okay
also, Lilia in particular has maybe the best timeskip character development of all time
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 4 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 chapter 4 spoilers#stage in playful land#i hope this is legible whoops#anon i am sorry but you made the fatal mistake of asking me to talk about diasomnia#insert 'i just think they're neat' jpg#i do like the other characters a lot but they are definitely my favorites#they just hit a lot of my favorite things in characters i guess!#yes even you sebek even though you keep shrieking NINGEN at me#(it's okay he gets Character Development™ later)#and their dynamic! it's great! these guys frikking love each other SO much and they WILL have terrible terrible angst about it#ohoho delicious#give me all your emotional hangups baybeeeee#also somewhere in there i went from 'i like them all equally (but lilia is the most fun to draw)'#to 'lilia is absolutely my favorite (and still the most fun to draw) (EVEN MORE fun now thank you swishy ponytail!)'#(it was probably when his candy coating got a little scratched and whoops all the tragedy fell out)#(where's that 'get loved loser' post because i need to staple it to lilia's forehead)#i am extremely bad at putting things into words so please don't ask me to explain it any further#just know that the diafam is everything to me and if we don't get more episode 7 soon i'm going to crumble into dust and blow away#we'll be getting the crowleytimes on monday and maybe there will be. idk. some foreshadowing or something in his groovy#probably not but LOOK i'm desperate
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Me, age 14, at the library; the cover of this has cool art I want to check it out
My mom, glancing over; ....honey. Atlas Shrugged is one of the worst things ever written.
Me, 14 and stubborn; I WANNA READ IT
Mom; okay
Me 1 day later; wow this is literally unreadable
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franz kafka i love you
#franz kafka#letters to milena#metamorphosis#the metamorphosis#books and reading#books#poetry#i love you#desire#infatuation#i miss you#girl blogger#tumblr girls#franz kafka quotes#franz kafka diaries#daily kafka#love poem#i am infatuated#i miss you terribly#girlblogging#female hysteria#just girly things#the female urge#the feminine urge#female manipulator#the female experience#divine feminine#female experience#i am unwell#what’s wrong with me
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reading this page broke me
#I read it before bed every night for like three days#terrible idea#gravity falls#book of bill#the book of bill#bill cipher#snart
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in the palm of your hands
#yuukoku no moriarty#Sherliam#Yuumori#moriarty the patriot#bbc sherlock#william james moriarty#yukoku no moriarty#Fanart#Digital art#Artists on tumblr#Character art#Illustration#As you can see my brainrot over sherliam continues to be terrible :D#Hair down sherlock is for the history books#Ofc I had to draw him at least once :>#This is based on that one VERY GAY official art of them btw#@silverquill
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