Feste the clown

"Still alive, it hurts"

Personally, Imuri cursing Lisa like this is distasteful. Yes yes Lisa killed Joshua and all but the fact that we don't get any of Imuri's internal distress or conflict about her remorse towards Lisa and their recently reconciled friendship is what make this disturbing. If this is intentional then fine, it's entirely in character for Imuri to focus solely on her idea of one and only love above all else, which is what she also does later the same chapter with the massacre, and like how she casually threw away her friendship with LeahBarb the moment their stances on Joshua stop aligning. Imuri has a tendency to make one thing her entire identity, a lot of her self-worth is tied to being the femme fatale so she needs to make something equally grand to eclipse it. Her dismissive attitude can be read as her totally immerse in her new role as Joshua's lover to ignore her surrounding and escape from her guilt (Imuri has quite the experiences in this field, meanwhile Joshua tried to make being Imuri's boyfriend his new identity to replace his church's personal attack dog status and faced heavy reality check). But if it's not then again, damn this arc's writing is really depending on how self-aware it is and how much all of this is intentional.

Today I was reading a legal text associated with his family, and in the introduction I learned that that scribe died nine years after he wrote that first message, when he was thirty years old.

The Annals of Ulster writes: "Aedh son of Concobur Mac Aedhagain, who was to be chief professor of jurisprudence, died." (This is under the entry for 1356, but its dates are consistently a little off; the plague is first mentioned under the entry for 1346, which is a couple of years before it actually reached Ireland, and Aedh told us he was writing in the second year of it – hence "c.1359".)

Oh my GOD Nasu's dialogue is even worse in the original Japanese

First of all, the immediate word you see to the right of the speech bubble is kodzukuri (子作り) literally "child-making". That's the first thing outta his mouth

Second of all, the counter he uses for the bride candidates is tousuu (頭数)

As in "heads of" cows/horses/etc.

THAT'S HOW YOU COUNT ANIMALS

by Louise Glück

I wanted to stay as I was still as the world is never still, not in midsummer but the moment before the first flower forms, the moment nothing is as yet past –

not midsummer, the intoxicant, but late spring, the grass not yet high at the edge of the garden, the early tulips beginning to open –

like a child hovering in a doorway, watching the others, the ones who go first, a tense cluster of limbs, alert to the failures of others, the public falterings

with a child’s fierce confidence of imminent power preparing to defeat these weaknesses, to succumb to nothing, the time directly

prior to flowering, the epoch of mastery