You, then, would be the person I should ask to recommend a good translation of the Kalevala, as I have been unable to find anything beyond the extremely brief summary in my childhood mythology textbooks, and it's driving me nuts. Please?
Re: Rachel's entry-- frankly, that woman sounds like a garden variety pessimist to me in a lot of ways. Did she say *anything* positive in that entry? If so, I missed it, and I caught putdowns of America in general, graduate school, the South, and her husband's army base as well. The 'it's just another place and therefore is really boring and bleah' attitude is one I've run across a fair bit, and it tends to drive me nuts, because if everywhere is 'just another place', why does anyone care about where they live or what they do there? In addition, her equation of nihonophile with anime fan was really simplistic, in my opinion. Of course, she *did* express her opinions as being opinions, which I'm very glad about, as it seems to be pretty rare these days.
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Date: 2004-08-22 11:11 pm (UTC)Re: Rachel's entry-- frankly, that woman sounds like a garden variety pessimist to me in a lot of ways. Did she say *anything* positive in that entry? If so, I missed it, and I caught putdowns of America in general, graduate school, the South, and her husband's army base as well. The 'it's just another place and therefore is really boring and bleah' attitude is one I've run across a fair bit, and it tends to drive me nuts, because if everywhere is 'just another place', why does anyone care about where they live or what they do there? In addition, her equation of nihonophile with anime fan was really simplistic, in my opinion. Of course, she *did* express her opinions as being opinions, which I'm very glad about, as it seems to be pretty rare these days.