Nov 28, 2009 · Jake Adelstein is a talented and hard-working journalist who has written some enlightening and important articles about crime, Yakuza, enjou kosai and the darker side of Japan's sex industry. I recently was made aware of his memoir, Tokyo Vice, and out of respect for his work, thought I'd give it a go. Unfortunately, Tokyo Vice is not an important or enlightening …

May 27, 2022 · Originally published in 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, helped define the high …

Jun 14, 2022 · This kind of Twee British Cringe, because it’s at once both self-hating and also uniquely self-obsessed, ... It's twee to define a country by any values, especially such ephemeral matters as what beverage it prefers. Values don’t actually matter to a nation; what makes a land pleasant to live in is a shared sense of identity and history ...

Less follows almost fifty-year-old Arthur Less, a not-so-popular novelist whose boyfriend of the past nine years is about to marry someone else. When Less gets the wedding invite, he decides to skip town and travel all around the world to different literary events. We accompany Less as he adventures to Paris, Berlin, India, and more.

It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.”

Reading Time: 4 minutes According to Carnegie Melon, only one book has been distributed in more copies than the Bible — the IKEA catalogue. First appearing in the University of Washington’s student newspaper, the thought-provoking quote surely reminds us of the sheer volume of IKEA catalogues that circulates around us each year: 200 million. The IKEA slogan is ‘creating a …

Likewise, he is often rash, inarticulate, self-obsessed, and too easily swayed. At times he is not even aware of why he does things, feeling that his hands are acting by themselves. These subconscious actions can be quite horrific, such as when he finds himself setting his supervisor on fire, but they also represent his deepest desires to rebel ...

Jun 19, 2022 · People who wear fragrances depending on their zodiac signs generally experience multiple positive outcomes since astrological influences tend to function to their advantage. So, Dr. Acharya Vinod ...

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’.

Life self-obsessed is nothing but excretion.” ― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination tags: helping-people , humanist , humanitarian-poetry , materialistic , selfie-culture , selfless-service , service-of-humanity , shallow-minded , social-media-addiction , social-media-mind