新しいMacBookを購入し、いわゆる“iApp”が快適に動くようになったので、ホームページとブログをiWebで作成することにしました。
新しいアドレスは
http://web.me.com/ohtayuuki/
です。ブログはここ。
mixiから飛んできてもらっている皆様につきましては、外部ブログのリンクを数日後に変更しますのでそれ以降は問題なく閲覧できるようになります。
ああ、さっぱりとした。という感じでしょうか。
完全にMac上で制作をしておりますので、推奨環境はMacとSafariまたはFirefoxです。iPhoneでもキレイに読めます。
一応Windows XP（IEとFirefox）で表示の確認はしました。表示が大幅に乱れることはありませんが、アンチエイリアスが効いてなくてエレガントじゃないです。
いろいろ書きたいことはあり、書かないと昨日何したかも忘れてしまうような生活なので書きたいのですが、どうもこうも時間が…という感じでしたが、制作プロセスはかなり簡略化、一本化されたのでいままでよりずっと楽になったかなという気がしています。
それでは、これから「行為の哲学」ゼミにいってきます。Actingとtrying to actの違いについて勉強してきますです。
あ、iWebはインポートができないのでこのブログは残します（ブログ移転は実は２回目）。コメント等も、まさか古い記事にはつかんと思いますが、モニタはしております。
11/13/2008
07/07/2008
A temporary Web page for my papers, etc.
As I begin my postgraduate studies, I'm thinking that it'd be nice to have a sober, semi-professional kind of Web site for my papers and other works, rather than the current, purely avocational site, Meandering at Sentimental Notions.
But I have no time to restructure the whole thing now, nor have I decided how I should go about it. So, for the time being, I made a little page with Google Page Creator, where I can upload some of my papers:
Yuuki Ohta's temporary Web page
You can go there and download and perhaps even read (!?) some of my undergraduate works. Most of them are uploaded just as they were submitted for the original purpose. So there are mistakes and errors. But of all the gibberish I have produced while in Virginia, these represent some of the more decent products.
The immediate reason for creating such a temporary site was because someone asked me to upload my thesis. It's there now. But I wanted to make sure (to myself perhaps?) that philosophical pragmatics is by no means all I do. So I uploaded some other papers on sundry topics.
I have at least a couple more works that I want to make available. But they do need more than minimal revision and therefore are not there yet.
But I have no time to restructure the whole thing now, nor have I decided how I should go about it. So, for the time being, I made a little page with Google Page Creator, where I can upload some of my papers:
Yuuki Ohta's temporary Web page
You can go there and download and perhaps even read (!?) some of my undergraduate works. Most of them are uploaded just as they were submitted for the original purpose. So there are mistakes and errors. But of all the gibberish I have produced while in Virginia, these represent some of the more decent products.
The immediate reason for creating such a temporary site was because someone asked me to upload my thesis. It's there now. But I wanted to make sure (to myself perhaps?) that philosophical pragmatics is by no means all I do. So I uploaded some other papers on sundry topics.
I have at least a couple more works that I want to make available. But they do need more than minimal revision and therefore are not there yet.
03/03/2008
Update: An essay on Baudelaire's poem
Beauty's Liberating Bondage: On Baudelaire's "La Beauté" (PDF file)
ボードレールの『悪の華』所収の「美（La Beauté）」という詩について、英語のクラスのために書いたエッセィです。「われは、美し、人間よ、あたかも石の夢の如し」（鈴木信太郎訳）という驚異的な一行で始まるソネットです。
ボードレールの『悪の華』所収の「美（La Beauté）」という詩について、英語のクラスのために書いたエッセィです。「われは、美し、人間よ、あたかも石の夢の如し」（鈴木信太郎訳）という驚異的な一行で始まるソネットです。
01/11/2008
Update:詩 ポンジュのパスティーシュ
Le Vent (Un pastiche sur Ponge) (opens in a new window)
フランシス・ポンジュは散文詩やエッセイの分野で活躍した20世紀フランスの詩人です。詩集『Parti pris des choses』において彼は、雨、ろうそく、オレンジなど、身近にある「もの」や「こと」を、感情と象徴を抑えた、注意深くそして極めて洗練された文体で記述しました。晩年のデリダも取り上げていますが、日本ではあまり知られていないようです。
この作品は彼のスタイルを模倣して風（le vent）について19・20世紀フランス文学のクラスの課題として書いたパスティーシュです。散文が読まれた時に自然にたち現れるリズムや音感（詩の訪れ＝音ずれ）に注意して書いたことを記憶しています。
Francis Ponge (Wikipédia.fr)
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（Meandering at sentimental notionsは今年も忘れた頃に更新を続けていく予定です。夏にはiWebに移行してこのブログも含めてリニューアルしたい、なんて考えております。）
フランシス・ポンジュは散文詩やエッセイの分野で活躍した20世紀フランスの詩人です。詩集『Parti pris des choses』において彼は、雨、ろうそく、オレンジなど、身近にある「もの」や「こと」を、感情と象徴を抑えた、注意深くそして極めて洗練された文体で記述しました。晩年のデリダも取り上げていますが、日本ではあまり知られていないようです。
この作品は彼のスタイルを模倣して風（le vent）について19・20世紀フランス文学のクラスの課題として書いたパスティーシュです。散文が読まれた時に自然にたち現れるリズムや音感（詩の訪れ＝音ずれ）に注意して書いたことを記憶しています。
Francis Ponge (Wikipédia.fr)
＊ ＊ ＊
（Meandering at sentimental notionsは今年も忘れた頃に更新を続けていく予定です。夏にはiWebに移行してこのブログも含めてリニューアルしたい、なんて考えております。）
12/03/2007
Update: 詩 エミリー・ディキンソンの翻訳 また
エミリー・ディキンソン 試的／私的 詩選／視線 (opens in a new window)
この暮れのめちゃくちゃ忙しくて追いつめられている時に、こんなことやってる場合じゃないんですけど…。とにかく、訳詩を12篇分追加、また掲載順を全集に収録されている順番に直しました。
有名な1212（A word is dead...）なんかは、中学２年程度の英語がわかれば、英語で読めます。ぜひご一読あれ。オリジナルはここに。
僕の個人的なお気に入りは、449、615、そして1774でしょうか。最後のは文字通りの意味を訳すのもほとんど不可能かと思われます。
この暮れのめちゃくちゃ忙しくて追いつめられている時に、こんなことやってる場合じゃないんですけど…。とにかく、訳詩を12篇分追加、また掲載順を全集に収録されている順番に直しました。
有名な1212（A word is dead...）なんかは、中学２年程度の英語がわかれば、英語で読めます。ぜひご一読あれ。オリジナルはここに。
僕の個人的なお気に入りは、449、615、そして1774でしょうか。最後のは文字通りの意味を訳すのもほとんど不可能かと思われます。
10/12/2007
Update: エピクテトスの『生きる手引き』
生きる手引き (The Enchiridion by Epictetus)
学校の宿題はなかなかできないのに、こういう誰にも頼まれていないようなことには簡単に足を突っ込んでしまうのです。何はともあれ、ストア学派のギリシア哲学者、エピクテトスの『生きる手引き（The Enchiridion）』、全体の半分ほどですが、邦訳してみましたので公開します。
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学校の宿題はなかなかできないのに、こういう誰にも頼まれていないようなことには簡単に足を突っ込んでしまうのです。何はともあれ、ストア学派のギリシア哲学者、エピクテトスの『生きる手引き（The Enchiridion）』、全体の半分ほどですが、邦訳してみましたので公開します。
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09/29/2007
Update: Photography "アルティフィクショナリテ・デュ・トン：ポーズ・リヨネーズ" (4 of 4)
Here:
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
最初の３セクションをアップロードしてから随分間が開いてしまっていましたが、ようやくこれでリヨンの写真集は一応完成です。４セクション、全９２枚。
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L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
最初の３セクションをアップロードしてから随分間が開いてしまっていましたが、ようやくこれでリヨンの写真集は一応完成です。４セクション、全９２枚。
Read more...
08/06/2007
Update: Photography "L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais" (3 of 4)
Here:
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
Le grand titre que j'ai donné à ces collections des images de France, "l'artifictionalité du temps," m'est arrivé premièrement quand je regardais ces photos du ciel prises dans les traboules croix-roussiennes.
D'où viennent ces temps... ces temps perdus... où vont-ils... ? À travers de la passage... d'autre temps...
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
Le grand titre que j'ai donné à ces collections des images de France, "l'artifictionalité du temps," m'est arrivé premièrement quand je regardais ces photos du ciel prises dans les traboules croix-roussiennes.
D'où viennent ces temps... ces temps perdus... où vont-ils... ? À travers de la passage... d'autre temps...
08/03/2007
Update: Photography "L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais" (2 of 4)
Here:
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
Continuation of the series of pictures from Lyon, France. This section, entitled "Perspectives," features views of the city (many of them from the hill called "Croix-Rousse") limited and defined by horizon and/or buildings.
2 more sections are to follow (and them I'm done).
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
Continuation of the series of pictures from Lyon, France. This section, entitled "Perspectives," features views of the city (many of them from the hill called "Croix-Rousse") limited and defined by horizon and/or buildings.
2 more sections are to follow (and them I'm done).
07/31/2007
Update: Photography "L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais" (1 of 4)
Here:
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
More pictures from France (more particularly, from Lyon). I've put together 23 pictures under the heading "places." Three more sections are to follow, in a few days (hopefully).
Photoshopping these miserable images ("ces quelques hideux feuillets de mon carnet de damné," says Rimbaud), sometimes I don't understand why on earth I'm doing this. The pictures I've taken blindly, for no one. And no one in fact will see them.
To do something for someone, that is to say to have a reason. Not to have a reason can sometimes be a reason to do a thing ("for no reason")... reason is my sickness.
L'artifictionalité du temps - Poses Lyonnais
More pictures from France (more particularly, from Lyon). I've put together 23 pictures under the heading "places." Three more sections are to follow, in a few days (hopefully).
Photoshopping these miserable images ("ces quelques hideux feuillets de mon carnet de damné," says Rimbaud), sometimes I don't understand why on earth I'm doing this. The pictures I've taken blindly, for no one. And no one in fact will see them.
To do something for someone, that is to say to have a reason. Not to have a reason can sometimes be a reason to do a thing ("for no reason")... reason is my sickness.
07/25/2007
Update: Photography "L'artifictionalité du temps - un essai"
Here:
L'artifictionalité du temps - un essai
Having scanned all the pictures taken in France, I am stunned by how horrible they are. They are just disastrous.
I'm still thinking how these regrettable images can be put together and presented (if at all). For now I've put together just five of them, minimally decent (with some photoshop tampering). This is an experimental trial: hence the title, "un essai."
"Artifictionalité" is my neologism combining "artificiality" and "fictionality." "Temps" in French can either mean "time" or "weather." Despite (or because of, perhaps) the low quality of the images, I like this title very much; it is (as always) too deep to be explained.
My photographic incompetence issues probably from my ignorance: not only did I lack skill, effort and talent; I didn't know (j'ignorais) why and for whom I was taking all these pictures.
Even a photographic image must be addressed. Like an utterance.
L'artifictionalité du temps - un essai
Having scanned all the pictures taken in France, I am stunned by how horrible they are. They are just disastrous.
I'm still thinking how these regrettable images can be put together and presented (if at all). For now I've put together just five of them, minimally decent (with some photoshop tampering). This is an experimental trial: hence the title, "un essai."
"Artifictionalité" is my neologism combining "artificiality" and "fictionality." "Temps" in French can either mean "time" or "weather." Despite (or because of, perhaps) the low quality of the images, I like this title very much; it is (as always) too deep to be explained.
My photographic incompetence issues probably from my ignorance: not only did I lack skill, effort and talent; I didn't know (j'ignorais) why and for whom I was taking all these pictures.
Even a photographic image must be addressed. Like an utterance.
05/15/2007
Update : Prose "Speech given at the Inkstone reception"
Here:
Speech given at the Inkstone reception (opens in a new window)
Inkstone, a student-run organization at UVa that publishes a yearly magazine containing literary works and articles related to Asian American issues, accepted two of my poems for the 2007 issue. They invited me to give a brief speech and read a poem at their reception.
The speech is presented here almost verbatim. At the reception, I gave this speech, and read one of the poems accepted, entitled "Interpretations of Silence." I spoke hogwash, as does the poem, and I'm sure people thought: "What is this guy talking about?"
Speech given at the Inkstone reception (opens in a new window)
Inkstone, a student-run organization at UVa that publishes a yearly magazine containing literary works and articles related to Asian American issues, accepted two of my poems for the 2007 issue. They invited me to give a brief speech and read a poem at their reception.
The speech is presented here almost verbatim. At the reception, I gave this speech, and read one of the poems accepted, entitled "Interpretations of Silence." I spoke hogwash, as does the poem, and I'm sure people thought: "What is this guy talking about?"
03/08/2007
Update: 詩 エミリー・ディキンソンの翻訳
エミリー・ディキンソン 試的／私的 詩選／視線 (opens in a new window)
春休みに入った途端、風邪をひいてしまった。日曜は寒気がして、月曜は頭痛、火曜日には咳がひどく、水曜日は鼻水が止まらない。生きる理由なんて少しもないのだから、いつ死んだって構わないなどとのたまっている人間が、風邪で苦しめられているとは、少しおかしなことではある。
理由はよくわからないが、エミリー・ディキンソンの詩を幾つか訳してみた。もともと誰かに読まれるために書かれたのではないから、誰かに読ませるために訳すわけでもなく、またそれで構わない。全く嫌らしいやつだ、と後でどこからか聞こえてくるだろうけど。
とにかく、一週間の休みの半分は無駄に過ごした。残りも無駄に過ごすだろう。そういうものだ。つまりそれほどのものでしかなかった、ということ。
春休みに入った途端、風邪をひいてしまった。日曜は寒気がして、月曜は頭痛、火曜日には咳がひどく、水曜日は鼻水が止まらない。生きる理由なんて少しもないのだから、いつ死んだって構わないなどとのたまっている人間が、風邪で苦しめられているとは、少しおかしなことではある。
理由はよくわからないが、エミリー・ディキンソンの詩を幾つか訳してみた。もともと誰かに読まれるために書かれたのではないから、誰かに読ませるために訳すわけでもなく、またそれで構わない。全く嫌らしいやつだ、と後でどこからか聞こえてくるだろうけど。
とにかく、一週間の休みの半分は無駄に過ごした。残りも無駄に過ごすだろう。そういうものだ。つまりそれほどのものでしかなかった、ということ。
11/26/2006
Update: Prose "Un Cœur simple... et son ambivalence compliquée"
Here:
Un Cœur simple... et son ambivalence compliquée
An essay in French on "Un Cœur simple," a celebrated short story by Gustav Flaubert. It examines the nature of empathy as exemplified in a simple heart.
My essay aside, Flaubert is fascinating, to say the very least. The language is fairly accessible to beginning French students (myself included), if one goes slow enough.
The story is included in a book called "Trois Contes," or "Three Tales," and can be read in a number of places online, of which I indicate one: Gustav Flaubert
Un Cœur simple... et son ambivalence compliquée
An essay in French on "Un Cœur simple," a celebrated short story by Gustav Flaubert. It examines the nature of empathy as exemplified in a simple heart.
My essay aside, Flaubert is fascinating, to say the very least. The language is fairly accessible to beginning French students (myself included), if one goes slow enough.
The story is included in a book called "Trois Contes," or "Three Tales," and can be read in a number of places online, of which I indicate one: Gustav Flaubert
10/31/2006
Update: Poetry "Glance"
Here:
Glance
This is a poem about an October day, written in October. So I thought I should put it up before October ends.
Glance
This is a poem about an October day, written in October. So I thought I should put it up before October ends.
10/10/2006
Update: Poetry (詩)
Here:
三人の女達
先月の初めに書いて、ページもつくってあったんだけどそれからなんとなくほっぽってあったものです。その時に書いた説明には「詩をもって何かを語ろうとしないために。習作。詩的雰囲気とは一体なにか、考える。」とあります。な〜に言ってんだか。
ところで今英語でもう二つくらい書けそうな感じです。一つはほとんど完成形。もう一つに関して、昨日の朝寝ていたら素晴らしい文が五行分くらい思いついたんですけど、起きてパソコンに向かった途端完全に失念してしまいました。まぁよくあることです。忘れてしまうくらいのフレーズはそれほど良くなかったと思うことにしてます。
三人の女達
先月の初めに書いて、ページもつくってあったんだけどそれからなんとなくほっぽってあったものです。その時に書いた説明には「詩をもって何かを語ろうとしないために。習作。詩的雰囲気とは一体なにか、考える。」とあります。な〜に言ってんだか。
ところで今英語でもう二つくらい書けそうな感じです。一つはほとんど完成形。もう一つに関して、昨日の朝寝ていたら素晴らしい文が五行分くらい思いついたんですけど、起きてパソコンに向かった途端完全に失念してしまいました。まぁよくあることです。忘れてしまうくらいのフレーズはそれほど良くなかったと思うことにしてます。
09/28/2006
Update: Prose "La mort des mots, ou, le mot de la mort"
Here:
La mort des mots, ou, le mot de la mort
This is an essay in French on "Le Mur (The Wall)," a short story by Jean-Paul Sartre. I wrote it for my French class. It's a very brief analysis of the function of "word" in this story.
The story is very famous as a quintessential fictional work of existentialism, and is widely anthologized (perhaps you can find the text online). If you haven't read it, check it out.
I compare this with the prose-poem-like piece I wrote at the beginning of last semester, and am strongly convinced that I have no talent whatsoever for creative writing.
That is not to say, of course, that I'm even moderately good at expository writing. The road to a good writer is narrow and long. My ultimate ideal is to write with the clarity of W. V. Quine, the rigor of Marx, the wit of Kierkegaard, the beauty of Nietzsche, and the love of St. Augustine. (Now that's a lofty ideal but hey.)
La mort des mots, ou, le mot de la mort
This is an essay in French on "Le Mur (The Wall)," a short story by Jean-Paul Sartre. I wrote it for my French class. It's a very brief analysis of the function of "word" in this story.
The story is very famous as a quintessential fictional work of existentialism, and is widely anthologized (perhaps you can find the text online). If you haven't read it, check it out.
I compare this with the prose-poem-like piece I wrote at the beginning of last semester, and am strongly convinced that I have no talent whatsoever for creative writing.
That is not to say, of course, that I'm even moderately good at expository writing. The road to a good writer is narrow and long. My ultimate ideal is to write with the clarity of W. V. Quine, the rigor of Marx, the wit of Kierkegaard, the beauty of Nietzsche, and the love of St. Augustine. (Now that's a lofty ideal but hey.)
09/06/2006
Update: Prose (エッセー)
Here:
スピッツの『楓』と『存在と時間』
「きわめて深刻な発言」――ジダンは何をしたのか
ブログに書いてきた記事のうち比較的長くてアクセス数の多かった（多い）ものを「エッセー」としてメインのサイトにアップしました。本文の改訂はしていません。基本的にコピペです。
いくらカテゴリと月別アーカイブで整理されているとはいえ、ブログの形式内で少しは内容のある記事とどうでも良い記事を見分けるのは困難です。最近ではここのようなくだらないコンテンツばかりのブログを結果からはじくような検索エンジンサービスもあります。また、日本語Prose（散文）のセクションのエッセー・ペーパの項にいつまでも何もないのも寂しいものです（笑）。以上の理由から、普段より少しだけ時間をかけて書いた記事の体裁を整えてあげても良いかな、と考えたのでした。
スピッツの『楓』と『存在と時間』
「きわめて深刻な発言」――ジダンは何をしたのか
ブログに書いてきた記事のうち比較的長くてアクセス数の多かった（多い）ものを「エッセー」としてメインのサイトにアップしました。本文の改訂はしていません。基本的にコピペです。
いくらカテゴリと月別アーカイブで整理されているとはいえ、ブログの形式内で少しは内容のある記事とどうでも良い記事を見分けるのは困難です。最近ではここのようなくだらないコンテンツばかりのブログを結果からはじくような検索エンジンサービスもあります。また、日本語Prose（散文）のセクションのエッセー・ペーパの項にいつまでも何もないのも寂しいものです（笑）。以上の理由から、普段より少しだけ時間をかけて書いた記事の体裁を整えてあげても良いかな、と考えたのでした。
08/07/2006
Update: Photography (写真)
Here:
First Lessons
（Sean at the port）
高校三年の時一学期だけ入門的な写真の授業をとったんですけど、その時の写真です。お蔵入りになりかけてましたが最近スキャンしたのでちゃんとまとめてみました（笑）。それまで暗室に入ったこともなかったし、なんとなく楽しい授業が思い出されるのでタイトルは「First Lessons」としました。
白黒だとなんか味があるし、やはり自分で現像・プリントしたから愛着があります。被写体もいいなぁ。一枚一枚に思い出があるというか。このあたりを見てるとやっぱり人間を撮るのが一番おもしろいなと感じるわけです。一番難しいのかもしれないけど。
First Lessons
（Sean at the port）
高校三年の時一学期だけ入門的な写真の授業をとったんですけど、その時の写真です。お蔵入りになりかけてましたが最近スキャンしたのでちゃんとまとめてみました（笑）。それまで暗室に入ったこともなかったし、なんとなく楽しい授業が思い出されるのでタイトルは「First Lessons」としました。
白黒だとなんか味があるし、やはり自分で現像・プリントしたから愛着があります。被写体もいいなぁ。一枚一枚に思い出があるというか。このあたりを見てるとやっぱり人間を撮るのが一番おもしろいなと感じるわけです。一番難しいのかもしれないけど。
07/27/2006
Update: Poems "A Season of Thousand Sorrows"
Here:
Our lonesomeness
This hand
(no name)
Some poems assumed shape and I decided to collect them under the heading "A Season of Thousand Sorrows." I have a couple more "ideas" but I don't know how many more I can compose for this series.
The first was written very fast. The idea expressed here is the kind that sparks in a flash when one is doing most quotidian things, like going to a bathroom.
The second was originally composed for a collection of pictures that can be browsed here. Some modifications were made.
The third was originally written in Japanese, and, despite its simple form, the ambiguous diction in Japanese could not be translated. So I decided to insert another ambiguity.
Our lonesomeness
This hand
(no name)
Some poems assumed shape and I decided to collect them under the heading "A Season of Thousand Sorrows." I have a couple more "ideas" but I don't know how many more I can compose for this series.
The first was written very fast. The idea expressed here is the kind that sparks in a flash when one is doing most quotidian things, like going to a bathroom.
The second was originally composed for a collection of pictures that can be browsed here. Some modifications were made.
The third was originally written in Japanese, and, despite its simple form, the ambiguous diction in Japanese could not be translated. So I decided to insert another ambiguity.
07/03/2006
06/26/2006
Update: Poetry (詩)
あこがれのひと (opens in a new window)
またラヴ・ソング。また夏だね。悲しいような、悲しくないような。一分後にものすごく悲しいことが起こるような、そんな気分。最近ね。「悲しい」って言った（書いた）ときにホントにただ悲しいだけならあんまり面白い詩は書けないと思うけど。
もう一つ二つね、今日本語でできそう。アイディア自体はかなり前からあって。二つにするべきか一つにまとめるべきかっていう。そこが悩み。最初は英語か日本語かもわからなかった（詩はだんだん見えてくるものです）。もう少し待ちましょう。
またラヴ・ソング。また夏だね。悲しいような、悲しくないような。一分後にものすごく悲しいことが起こるような、そんな気分。最近ね。「悲しい」って言った（書いた）ときにホントにただ悲しいだけならあんまり面白い詩は書けないと思うけど。
もう一つ二つね、今日本語でできそう。アイディア自体はかなり前からあって。二つにするべきか一つにまとめるべきかっていう。そこが悩み。最初は英語か日本語かもわからなかった（詩はだんだん見えてくるものです）。もう少し待ちましょう。
06/16/2006
Update: 詩 翻訳作品３点
ためらい（Reservations）
Such a Way
O Waly, Waly (The water is wide, )
なんとなーくだけど（笑）、お気に入りの英語の歌を３曲、邦訳してみました。良い曲なので、読んでみて下さい。
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Such a Way
O Waly, Waly (The water is wide, )
なんとなーくだけど（笑）、お気に入りの英語の歌を３曲、邦訳してみました。良い曲なので、読んでみて下さい。
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05/21/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (7/7)
Here:
Intepretations of Silence
Series of seven poems collected under the title of "Interpretations of Silence" is now complete.
I shall not go a-explaining. Let the poem itself speak for itself, out of its silence.
Intepretations of Silence
Series of seven poems collected under the title of "Interpretations of Silence" is now complete.
I shall not go a-explaining. Let the poem itself speak for itself, out of its silence.
05/15/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (6/7)
Here:
Echoes
The penultimate poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I think I have to start thinking about writing new poems.
In terms of the date of conception, this is actually the last poem in the present series. With this poem I saw that my natural inclination began to diverge from the theme of "interpretations of silence." What comes next? Who knows?
Echoes
The penultimate poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I think I have to start thinking about writing new poems.
In terms of the date of conception, this is actually the last poem in the present series. With this poem I saw that my natural inclination began to diverge from the theme of "interpretations of silence." What comes next? Who knows?
05/10/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (5/7)
Here:
Voici le printemps!
The fifth poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I shall upload the remaining two poems shortly after I get back home.
This piece is similar in sentiment to the preceding one, "Flower's silence." The orientation with the natural world is the same, and they both express (the early) Wittgensteinian thought. In fact, they were written on the same day.
"Voici le printemps!" translates as "here is spring!" but in English it would be more natural to say "spring is here!" but in that simplicity the excitement is lost. I like the word "Voici" (and "voilà"), because of its condensation, its explosive here-is-ness.
Voici le printemps!
The fifth poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I shall upload the remaining two poems shortly after I get back home.
This piece is similar in sentiment to the preceding one, "Flower's silence." The orientation with the natural world is the same, and they both express (the early) Wittgensteinian thought. In fact, they were written on the same day.
"Voici le printemps!" translates as "here is spring!" but in English it would be more natural to say "spring is here!" but in that simplicity the excitement is lost. I like the word "Voici" (and "voilà"), because of its condensation, its explosive here-is-ness.
Current music: Piano Concerto No.1 (E. Rautavaara), by Ralf Gothoni (pf.)/Max Pommer (cond.)/Leipzig Radio Symphony Orch.
05/04/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (4/7)
Here:
Flower's Silence
The fourth poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." It looks like I will be finishing up the series after I get back home. But that's fine.
In this poem I discuss flower, one of the most commonplace element in the art of poetry. But I play with the philosophy of Wittgenstein, as expressed in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It may be somewhat difficult poem in this regard, but otherwise, well, I must say, the expression is quite simple and honest.
Flower's Silence
The fourth poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." It looks like I will be finishing up the series after I get back home. But that's fine.
In this poem I discuss flower, one of the most commonplace element in the art of poetry. But I play with the philosophy of Wittgenstein, as expressed in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It may be somewhat difficult poem in this regard, but otherwise, well, I must say, the expression is quite simple and honest.
Current music: Part XII, from "Radience" (Keith Jarrett)
04/26/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (3/7)
Here:
Bird questions
The third poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." As I put them up one by one, I feel the end of the year drawing nearer and nearer.
This one just flowed out after the first sentence came to my mind one day. I had just begun reading Heidegger's Being and Time then. This poem consists mainly of questions, and in that sense it is inconclusive and (hopefully) thought-provoking. The obvious double-meaning of the title is to be noted.
Bird questions
The third poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." As I put them up one by one, I feel the end of the year drawing nearer and nearer.
This one just flowed out after the first sentence came to my mind one day. I had just begun reading Heidegger's Being and Time then. This poem consists mainly of questions, and in that sense it is inconclusive and (hopefully) thought-provoking. The obvious double-meaning of the title is to be noted.
Current music: String Quaret in Four Parts (1949-50) (John Cage), by Arditti String Quartet
04/17/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (2/7)
Here:
A Simple Sun
The second poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I have 5 more to come.
One of the important themes of "Interpretation of Silence" is "anti-poetry." I mean something quite positive by this, and my very putting forward these pieces affirms that paradox. Oh poetry, this contradictory enterprise! But as Nietzsche said, "the price of fruitfulness is to be rich in internal opposition."
But enough of theoretical rubbish. This one is a simple love poem. A love poem... well, why would I even need this qualification? All my poems are love poems anyway.
A Simple Sun
The second poem in the ongoing project, "Interpretations of Silence." I have 5 more to come.
One of the important themes of "Interpretation of Silence" is "anti-poetry." I mean something quite positive by this, and my very putting forward these pieces affirms that paradox. Oh poetry, this contradictory enterprise! But as Nietzsche said, "the price of fruitfulness is to be rich in internal opposition."
But enough of theoretical rubbish. This one is a simple love poem. A love poem... well, why would I even need this qualification? All my poems are love poems anyway.
Current music: Sonata in C, K330/300h (W. A. Mozart), by Mitsuko Uchida
04/12/2006
Update: Poems "Interpretations of Silence" (1/7)
Here:
A Hope
I have recently written up seven poems under the title "Interpretations of Silence." It is the first series of poems in English I have written in quite a while (virtually almost a year).
I decided to put them up one by one, in such a pace that by the time all seven poems are up, I will be done with the school for this year. So stay tuned, come back, and read all seven of them.
This first one, "A Hope," is a short piece that serves as a prelude, not only to this particular sequence, but also within a greater scale, one might say, to a new phase in my writing life.
A Hope
I have recently written up seven poems under the title "Interpretations of Silence." It is the first series of poems in English I have written in quite a while (virtually almost a year).
I decided to put them up one by one, in such a pace that by the time all seven poems are up, I will be done with the school for this year. So stay tuned, come back, and read all seven of them.
This first one, "A Hope," is a short piece that serves as a prelude, not only to this particular sequence, but also within a greater scale, one might say, to a new phase in my writing life.
Current music: Piano Concerto no.2 in d, op.40 (Mendelssohn), by Murray Perahia (pf.)/Neville Marriner (dir.)/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields
04/02/2006
Update: Photography
Diverted Eyes: March in NYC (opens in a new window)
(Silhouette in the manner of Magritte)
The first update in a quite a while. Pictures taken during the spring break.
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(Silhouette in the manner of Magritte)
The first update in a quite a while. Pictures taken during the spring break.
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02/23/2006
Update: フランス語 作文
La ville, vue de la colline par un après-midi d'octobre (opens in a new window)
15年近い学生生活の中でも最もありえない成績をとってしまった今学期最初のフランス語の作文課題をあえて晒します。過ちを笑いとばして、さっさと次に進むためです（笑）。
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15年近い学生生活の中でも最もありえない成績をとってしまった今学期最初のフランス語の作文課題をあえて晒します。過ちを笑いとばして、さっさと次に進むためです（笑）。
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02/20/2006
Update: 詩 翻訳
イェイツによる詩２品 (opens in a new window)
T. S. エリオットと並んで２０世紀最大の詩人とされるW. B. イェイツによる“By the Salley Gardens”と“He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”という二つの詩を翻訳してみました。是非読んでみて下さい。
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T. S. エリオットと並んで２０世紀最大の詩人とされるW. B. イェイツによる“By the Salley Gardens”と“He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”という二つの詩を翻訳してみました。是非読んでみて下さい。
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02/19/2006
Update: a poem
Walking to my first class (opens in a new window)
Here's a piece I wrote last May. I've made some small revisions, but the piece is almost as it is as it was first written.
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Here's a piece I wrote last May. I've made some small revisions, but the piece is almost as it is as it was first written.
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02/12/2006
Update: Poetry (詩)
夕陽のせせらぎ (opens in a new window)
僕はあんまりカフェでコーヒーとか飲まないんだけど。「ヘーゼルナッツハイランダー」（名前からしてオシャレだ）って最近初めて飲んで「うわ〜こりゃ美味しいなぁ！」って。
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僕はあんまりカフェでコーヒーとか飲まないんだけど。「ヘーゼルナッツハイランダー」（名前からしてオシャレだ）って最近初めて飲んで「うわ〜こりゃ美味しいなぁ！」って。
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02/10/2006
Update: Prose
Burden, Bridge, and Grace: Some metaphysical observations on the body in Hamlet and Waiting for Godot (opens in a new window)
This is a paper that I wrote for "Religion and Modern Theatre" class last semester.
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This is a paper that I wrote for "Religion and Modern Theatre" class last semester.
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02/04/2006
Update: クセナキス 続き
Pendragon版への序（Preface to the Pendragon Edition） (opens in a new window)
クセナキスの『フォーマライズド・ミュージック』翻訳プロジェクトの第２弾です。1992年に出版された拡張増補版（＝底本）の為に書かれた序を追加しました。
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クセナキスの『フォーマライズド・ミュージック』翻訳プロジェクトの第２弾です。1992年に出版された拡張増補版（＝底本）の為に書かれた序を追加しました。
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02/02/2006
Update: Exits to the world out there
Links (opens in a new window)
"Links" section is added. Those sites with descriptions in English are (mainly) in English. Those with descriptions in Japanese are (mainly) in Japanese. Please report if you have difficulty displaying the fonts correctly (it should work fine if you are able to read this blog fine).
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"Links" section is added. Those sites with descriptions in English are (mainly) in English. Those with descriptions in Japanese are (mainly) in Japanese. Please report if you have difficulty displaying the fonts correctly (it should work fine if you are able to read this blog fine).
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01/29/2006
01/27/2006
"Poets and Philosophers: Fragments" (Prose)
Poets and Philosophers: Fragments (opens in a new window)
Originally composed last year, at one night in January. A slight modification in the last dictum, and an addition.
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Originally composed last year, at one night in January. A slight modification in the last dictum, and an addition.
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01/22/2006
翻訳：『フォーマライズド・ミュージック』 抄
フォーマライズド・ミュージック 抄 (opens in a new window)
とりあえずプロジェクトの全体像がわかるようなページをつくって、“『Musiques Formelles』への序（Preface to Musiques Formelles）”の訳を掲載しました。頑張りますよ〜、できるだけ。
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とりあえずプロジェクトの全体像がわかるようなページをつくって、“『Musiques Formelles』への序（Preface to Musiques Formelles）”の訳を掲載しました。頑張りますよ〜、できるだけ。
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01/21/2006
詩二つ…くらい
“スタシス（Stasis）”と“（ここのおと）” (opens in a new window)
性懲りもなくまた詩書きたいな〜と思ってて。まあとりあえず二つカタチにはしてみたけども、という感じ。
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性懲りもなくまた詩書きたいな〜と思ってて。まあとりあえず二つカタチにはしてみたけども、という感じ。
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"Poetry" pages are back
Poetry (Opens in a new window)
My other Web site has been in the process of major reconstruction, and the progress is made at a speed as slow as any real construction taking place here at U.Va. But the old contents are linked back gradually.
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My other Web site has been in the process of major reconstruction, and the progress is made at a speed as slow as any real construction taking place here at U.Va. But the old contents are linked back gradually.
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01/07/2006
This could be a beginning of something big
Having rather thoroughly struggled with GoLive CS2, the top page of my main web site, Meandering at Sentimental Notions, has assumed a new look.
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