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Persona 5 and Cognitive Estrangement – a Detached Enchantment

Jan 4, 2023

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Persona 5 is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus that was released in 2016. The game follows a group of high school students who are struggling with modern issues such as social oppression and the pressure to conform to societal norms. They discover that they have the ability to enter a mysterious realm known…
Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Aug 3, 2021

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Reading fairytales within the origin language. Contextual agreements between time and place, emotions and aesthetics. We might localize our hearts out but truth be told we humans are too complex to translate. #japanese #japaneselanguage #folklore #fable
Books, Brew & Merry Christmas (or whatever you’re up to) be it naughty or nice.

Dec 24, 2017

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Whether you’re downing books, brew, or both, I’m wishing your a wonderful holiday season and merry Christmas,
From the Rooftops of Granada — an excerpt from my manuscript for ‘The Outsider.’ A Confessional Memoir/Novel on Identity, Love, Travel and Revolution in the Arab Spring.

Dec 22, 2017

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I mean, it’s not cheating if nothing happens. Oh, but emotions run deep. Which begs the question: What’s worse, an emotional or a physical affair?
Opening lines: A Story About Identity, Revolution, and What it Means to Be a Modern Human. A Work in Progress #LiteraryFiction

Dec 13, 2017

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Excerpt from The Outsider: A Memoir? “The sky out my window is that fiery red which makes the heart swell with life and there it is again: that sensational expanding within my chest, rising to my throat, gripping and stinging my eyes.”

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Persona 5 and Cognitive Estrangement – a Detached Enchantment

Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)

Books, Brew & Merry Christmas (or whatever you’re up to) be it naughty or nice.

From the Rooftops of Granada — an excerpt from my manuscript for ‘The Outsider.’ A Confessional Memoir/Novel on Identity, Love, Travel and Revolution in the Arab Spring.

Opening lines: A Story About Identity, Revolution, and What it Means to Be a Modern Human. A Work in Progress #LiteraryFiction