Turning to Japanese, a language that speaks to me Polly Barton on her fascination with Japan and its language, subject of her new book
Fri, May 7, 2021, 06:06 Polly Barton
Polly Barton: “I stayed in Japan because really where I feel comfortable is bowing to other people’s authority, surrendering my autonomy and swallowing whole the system of another.” Photograph: Garry Loughlin
peko-peko:
the sound of endlessly prostrating oneself, or the personality-chicken and culture-egg, or not talking to the band because you are a coward, and why?
A year and a half ago – which is to say, six months before crowding into a small venue with a hundred strangers from as many different households to bathe in each other’s sweat and drink in the long-range saliva particles emitted by the people standing on stage as they screamed and shouted became a sick and crimina