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John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Tue Oct 17 21:41:02 PDT 2017



> On Oct 18, 2017, at 12:08 AM, Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:11 PM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:08:31 -0200, Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> -  Mommy, "fuck you" in Japanese is "kutabare" or is another word?  :P
>> 
>>        Ah, I didn't know that one. Dictionary says :
>> 
>>        くたばる : to kick the bucket, to drop dead, to die ...
>> 
>>        So...kutabare literally means "die!"
>> 
>>        Dictionary also has くたばり損ない  :   somebody who wouldn't
>>        be missed if they died.
> 
> Juan, I love you and want you very, very alive, healthy and happy.  If
> you die, who will I annoy, eh?  ;)
> 
> You know part of my personal history and how much I love books and
> comics.  I have a few hundreds of both and usually donate books to
> that small public library where I've spent a great part of my
> childhood.  More or less 95% of physical books and comics are in my
> parents' house, not here, in a small apartment.  I have only 3
> dictionaries of Japanese and only one is with me now.  Unfortunately,
> it's the Japanese-Japanese, with the first 939 basic "kanjis", uff...
> Some of the ideograms use until 23 movements  (I paint them, not
> exactly write them.  Not shodo, but has its beauty too.).  It's pretty
> cute, but it isn't being useful now.  So, I will annoy you showing
> another kanji and a lovely Nasa link to send your name to Mars, eeee!!
> I choose "yume" because it means "dream" and shows a boy thinking
> about rockets.  Aww...  :)
> 
> #  https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight
> 
> #  https://imgur.com/a/dEfUE
> 
> Sorry, the pic is really bad, but I am tired and still feeling pain.
> If I really hate you, I would wish you several medical exams in your
> cerebrospinal fluid.  It hurts a lot and I am not exactly the luckiest
> person in the world, so the anesthesia never works.  All the times,
> the doctor mentions my "outdoor" (the hidden big tattoo) and we talk
> about strange subjects to distract me, so I don't feel so much pain,
> but I can't laugh or move during the procedure.
> 
> The cutest Japanese way to say "die!" is asking you to beat your head
> against the corner of a "tofu"  (very soft soy cheese)  until you
> die...  And "kutabare" means "fuck you" in my neighborhood.  I asked
> my neighbors and now I want to discover the correct kanji to this
> expression...  Shit (or "kuso", if you prefer), hiragana doesn't
> count, Juan!  :P
> 
> Later, in another thread, I _do need_ to talk about the fabulous
> samurai manga mentioned by John.  Love them, but you need to read the
> old Lone Wolf And Cub.  It's extremely sad,

LW&C - the original - is the first manga I ever bought.
I have the full 45 issue run of the first translation,
by First Comics - that's where the first 12 covers by
Frank Miller, Sienkiewicz and others came from that
Dark Horse eventually reused when they published 
the entire series. First Comics only did 45 issues, which
was only like half the story, and out of order...

So I have the Dark Horse prints too, which tell the 
story properly, in order :) And all the other 
Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima stuff Dark Horse 
translated... Still, LW&C is *the best*! I must've read it 
a dozen times over the years ;)  My girlfriend printed
this custom Daigoro shirt for me years ago, and I 
still wear it, although it's falling apart...

So far New LWC is good, the art almost reminds 
me or Kojima, and of course it's written by Kazuo -
although I think he's not quite at his peak - I still love 
reading the continuing adventures of Daigoro,
even with Itto and Yagyu dead....

Great fucking comics!! 

> heartbreaking, but very

> beautiful and delicate.  And I am in love with Elizebeth Friedman,
> wow!  And she was born on August, 26, wheee!!  ;D
> 
> Oyasuminasai, Juan-kun!  Good night, sweet dreams, dear all...  <3
> 
> PS:  - The sad history of my life...  https://youtu.be/oLt5qSm9U80  :((



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