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Sunday, February 26, 2006

It's Done
12,307 words (~40 pages double spaced) on Saikano before editing, folks, and I STILL feel like I've cut some stuff off short. Now all that's required is a lot of adding and removing commas and coming up with an appropriate name for the thing.

It actually came out quite Nietzschian, which surprised me (I only realized what was being said towards the end). Assuming anyone actually reads this thing, I may get called on this in terms of how it treats morality (and rightly so). The question on my mind at the moment is: would it ever be possible to use something like Saikano, which is so singlemindedly monogamist, as a basis for establishing an ethical ontology? Levinas seems incredibly ambivalent on the whole "love" thing at the end of T&I, and if my work here is anywhere in the neighborhood, his fears are probably justified. But there has to be a way to think the relationship between love and ethical exteriority without demeaning either one in the process. I dare not oversimplify this.

Anyways, hopefully the article can get put up by the first or thereabouts. Then: time for a break!


EDIT: aaaaaand submitted! I decided that I hated myself enough to do a good couple of hours' worth of fixing up FORTY PAGES, and now it's been thrown to the lions. Hopefully I can pick something easier to write about next time, but for now... well, maybe someone can get something out of this thing. It's actually very, very good I think, though almost incomparably difficult next to most stuff written on anime.
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