20210117 Sunday
26 years since the Hanshin Awaji earthquake.
Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory;
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50643/sonnet-1-from-fairest-creatures-we-desire-increase
Mahatma Gandhi’s killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India
Venerate あがめる
On 30 January 1948, Godse stepped out in front of Gandhi and shot him three times at point-blank range.
At point blank range 至近距離
The BJP dislike Gandhi for being effeminate, they believe his non-violence movement made India weak, they distrust him for agreeing to partition and, above all, hate that he believed in equal rights for Muslims.
Effeminate opp. Manly
