Professor R Shaldjian Morrison,διδάσκαλος,夏炉冬扇, 散人

nippon-life stadium, osaka castle in background, 1960, via baseball in pics.

apatheia, or dispassion, we orthodox call this. @acteduweininger

Simeon the HolyFool, enroute to bath house w friend, stripped, put clothes on head,＆ barged into the women's bath. Startled, the women beat him. When asked how it felt to be among naked nubiles, he said "Like a block of wood among other blocks of wood." This is the way forward.

Syria’s Christians are being erased. Churches seized, crosses torn down, communities intimidated into silence or exile. From nearly 2 million Christians to a fraction of that today, the trajectory is clear. The Vanishing Crosses of Syria by @SallyObeid idicenter.org/article/the-va…

Imagine thinking that requiring basic proficiency in the language of a country in order to live there permanently is some kind of discrimination.

@acteduweininger @MrDwein orthodoxy awaits you . if roosh v could make the jump, so can you.

@MrDwein I’m a Nietzschean

Have you tried baptism, giving your life to Christ and getting married?

Kids are watching Ben Stiller's *Night at the Museum* (2006) beside me as I work; not really paying attention but I think the movie may qualify as an instance of Todorov's famous genre of "the fantastic" [rather than "the uncanny" or "the marvelous"].

@OliverJia1014 @DamianFlanagan I offered to be Richie's kanji instructor [I was 21 years old and had just spent the year mastering the 常用漢字]; but he said he was too old to start. Today, every foreigner and their grandmother can read 常用 kanji.

@Swarthyface @DamianFlanagan Apparently he came from a generation of people living in Japan where some teachers felt that kanji were too difficult for foreigners. I had some email correspondence with Donald Keene before he passed away though and he told me he never understood why Richie still didn’t try.

In my Mainichi column this week…Is there such a thing any more as an “Expert on Japan”? What do you think? mainichi.jp/english/articl…

@xenocosmography no doubt the desert fathers would agree.

"We actually become more virtuous as a result of engaging with demons." Absolute Chad Ripperger. youtube.com/watch?v=GMUjC8…

@acteduweininger unbelievably based; hesychastic even; i wish someone had told me this in my early twenties; then again, no regrets; amor fati.

While I disagree with Nick Fuentes on almost everything, here he is right. This is the profound genius of Christianity when it comes to sex. One of the greatest contributions to European thought of Otto Weininger is the discovery that this sexual formula is the conditia sine qua for masculinity to evolve into GENIUS. It need not require literal monasticism but it does require masculine culture and in a feminine culture it demands monasticism. It is impossible for genius to thrive in a feminine culture. This is why millennials have produced no great art. It is why Costin Alamariu, perhaps the greatest Xillennial thinker, is routinely accused of being a homosexual, just as Nick is.

@DamianFlanagan I should also note that Richie couldn't read Japanese, like at all. I asked him how many kanji he could recognize/read, and he said "A dozen or so."

@Swarthyface When Donald Richie met Yukio Mishima, he said that “two stamp collectors” always recognize each other.

During the corona debacle, my enemies (many in my field; no need to name) advocated for wife-kids & me to be banned from public life & travel. Yet I did not go G Khan & call for their annihilation; I called them "my enemies whom I am commanded to love"; this is the way forward.

note that I do not shy away from the word "enemies"; they are still my enemies.

I'm fine with boomers comparing every current event to World War Two, but I just wish they would make more comparisons to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (盧溝橋事件) of July 1937, which has much more analogous explanatory power than the usual boomerslop comparison.

@LeighFetter1 why thank you !

@Swarthyface you play beautifully!

Make sure you celebrate JS Bach's birthday today by giving this a listen, at full volume, via bluetooth, start to finish.

Graduation Ceremony, March 22, 2026

@DamianFlanagan I met and had dinner with Donald Richie once about twenty years ago; he was a nice enough guy but at the end of our dinner he asked me if I wanted to go to the naval base and pick up some homosexual sailors. [will read your piece later!］