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maluretteoursinNot OK? Booker winner Flesh ignites debate about state of masculinity
No, really, you don't say? Can it be that - once again, or perhaps, still MASCULINITY IS IN CRISIS?
Does it not sound as though the author goes in for 'dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension'? (Sigh.)
I am sorry to discover that an excoriating retrospect on John Fowles with particular reference to The Magus by DJ Taylor in the latest Literary Review does not appear to be fully accessible online, chiz, chiz -
[E]ach of his novels when stripped of its fashionable appurtenances - The Magus, for example, is rife with Jungian animas - is ultimately about male entitlement.... the books are all about men expecting to get the things they want and being mortified by their absence.
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[A] series of exercises in what Maurice Bowra called 'the higher bogus'.
I note that there was a BBC programme last night on the 'manosphere': young men who have drifted towards misogynist influencers – and finds them lonely, heartbreaking and on ‘semen retention journeys’ to control their sex drives. They sound rather sad and confused. (And historian is appalled at the persistence of a panic drummed up by an early C18th quack....)
Am trying to think of period when one could reliably say that masculinity was not in (some kind of) crisis.
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little fics of Hunter interacting with the cast of Huanted Hotel
Aka: Shorts that go with my other fic 'lost and found' that add context and world building. reading of the main story isnt needed but helps!
Words: 1898, Chapters: 5/?, Language: English
Series: Part 1 of Finding a lost child in the woods
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This odd-looking building was constructed to hold large amounts of gunpowder. It is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina, and hasn’t held gunpowder since the Revolutionary War.
This 300-plus-year-old building is 27 feet by 27 feet, with three-foot-thick walls that arched to the ceiling. If it were to explode, most of the explosive force would exit through the roof. To smother the fire, the arches are packed with several tons of sand.
While open at times, there are no set hours posted. Today, it operates as a museum.
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Though soy sauce is ubiquitous today, it was not always a feature of American palates. By some accounts, the very first person to begin processing Midwestern soy crops into the delicious fermented condiment at an industrial scale started it all in a small corner of Columbia City.
Shinzo Ohki was born in Japan, but after a circuitous and storied path from Kamakura to Seattle to Sitka, he set roots down in Whitley County, IN; he first appears in the historical record as a Columbia City High School graduate in 1907. Not long after graduating, he returned to Japan, where he gave lectures, learned about food manufacturing, and married his childhood "girl next door" crush.
Shortly after, Ohki returned to the United States. Reportedly, he worked in cities like Chicago, handling imports from Japan from the American side. However it happened, soon enough he came home to Columbia City to establish his own company: the Oriental Shoyu Factory. Shoyu, the Japanese word for soy sauce, was called "Show-You" sauce by Midwesterners less adaptable to foreign dialects - a name Ohki took as a marketing strategy. The sauce was sold with recipe pamphlets to introduce it to a new continent on a large scale, and advertised with examples of the sorts of dishes it could create.
It wasn't long before "Show-You" soy sauce, carried by Ohki's ingenious marketing and its own delicious flavor, hit its stride. At its peak, this small Columbia City company was selling 30,000 gallons of the salty sauce per year. Synergizing perfectly with the excellent soybean farming conditions of the Midwest, the Shoyu Factory was a beloved economic powerhouse for the city.
Ohki's beloved status in the community and his economic importance were challenged by the outbreak of World War II and the resulting anti-Japanese sentiments, but the midwestern sense of community would prevail over racial division. The residents and employees of Columbia City rallied to protect their Japanese residents from internment in the War Relocation Centers. As told by a Whitley County Historical Museum member, the townsfolk "set up guards to protect his home and when the government tried to get the Ohkis to go to internment camps, the city fathers and businessman wrote letters saying this man is too important to our community."
In the 1960s, Ohki's retirement included selling his company to one of the newly-forming Japanese foods giants of the era. His brand was incorporated into what is today the La Choy brand. Ohki himself is remembered with this alleyway commemorating him, as well as a scholarship bearing his name at the high school he graduated.
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