Akito's Adventures Underground

🎀 Stunning illustrations from Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails: For the Love of Lady Lovelylocks; written by Teddy Slater and illustrated by Pat Paris; published in 1987 🎀

ねるのがいちばん。

Let's get a good night's sleep.

※すべての写真および画像は私の所有物であり、私の許可なく使用することはできません。

This is a lie.

Often if you don't know one word, you're lost, you're done for. If I'm reading a book and I only recognize 50% of the words, then I'm not reading a book at all. There's no story playing in my head, no sensible meaning I'm able to derive from the page.

If I'm reading about a research study that concluded that eating one packet of natto a day will help me live forever, and I'm suspicious of this conclusion but am willing to believe, but the one word I don't know is the *kind* of research that was conducted (double-blind test, or survey sent via email?), then I have no ability to assess whether I trust this study or not.

Yesterday I was in the doctor's office and she diagnosed my condition, but the diagnosis was the only word I couldn't understand. All the other words I'd ever learned in my life up to that moment were of no use to me at all.