5/1 – 5/7
think medicine is the quest for immortality with a sense of humor.
reject one-night stands. height of bad manners to make love to somebody only once.
read the rape of nanking (1997) by iris chang.
the japanese outdid the romans at carthage (only 150,000 died in that slaughter), the christian armies during the spanish inquisition, and even some of the monstrosities of timur lenk, who killed 100,000 prisoners at delhi in 1398 and built two towers of skulls in syria in 1400 and 1401
many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them get torn apart by german shepherds
neither the people’s republic of china nor the republic of china demanded wartime reparations from japan (as israel had from germany) because the two governments were competing for japanese trade and political recognition
the allied forces surrendered at the rate of one prisoner for every 3 dead, the japanese surrendered at the rate of only 1 per 120 dead
not one hour when an innocent woman was not being dragged off somewhere by a japanese soldier
the impalement of vaginas
rabe..would chase japanese soldiers away from their prey, on one occasion even bodily lifting a soldier sprawled on top of a young girl. he knew these expeditions were highly dangerous (“the japanese had pistols and bayonets and i …had only party symbols and my swastika armband,” rabe wrote in his report to hitler)
december 18: today marks the 6th day of modern dante’s inferno, written in huge letters with blood and rape. murder by the wholesale and rape by the thousands of cases. there seems to be no stop to the ferocity, lust and stavisim of the brutes. at first i tried to be pleasant to them to avoid arousing their ire, but the smile has gradually worn off and my stare is fully as cool and fishy as theirs.
5/8 – 5/14
cannot distinguish 2022 jessica simpson from 2022 britney spears.
listened to lyle lovett. important to remember that despite uncomfortable politics, unpleasant weather, and hostile terrain, a texan accent an objectively beautiful dialect.
played how fast can you run to [lots of things] and back? with ellie. children are precious because they only want your time.
Kartika Upadhyaya 