To continue with the nerdiness, I’m not as afraid of new words as I am of new sentence constructions. Things like new grammatical structures and idioms and poetic language always trip me up. I can often (read sometimes) read new words the first time I come across them, by knowing the constituent kanji.
Thanks for your answer. I’ll probably buy the kindle edition and lurk along. If I buy it on my kindle, my girlfriend can’t complain about me having too many books because she won’t know about it. Bwahhahhahha…
Given the other archaic forms in this story, I wonder if it just means “When I breathe, it feels itchy”?
I read it as being the sort of morning where it seemed as if time stood still (in the next sentence he says he can’t move) and even the dropping of a pin would cause something to break. I don’t think it would refer to sound, as he has just mentioned the noise of the cicadas.
I found the story fascinating, beautiful, and very atmospheric. The vocabulary is way beyond my level and I would have despaired, had I needed to look up every unknown word/kanji. But thanks to the google sheet prepared by @Kyasurin and @MissMisc, I actually enjoyed reading the story (thanks again!).
I am fascinated by 緑の圧迫 (the pressure of the green?). I guess it’s the special light that bothers the narrator and is reason for him feeling unwell. What’s your view on this?
I, too, found the story fascinating, beautiful, and very atmospheric. The vocabulary is way beyond my level and I would have despaired, had I needed to look up every unknown word/kanji. Thank goodness these stories are short!
I also found it very interesting learning about the burial customs, and finally understood a number of things I’d seen before but not really understood.
The original vocab list has tabs at the bottom for each chapter already, everything can be found in one place! Chapter 2 vocab has already been added to on there:
I have been reading 男と女と荷車 this evening.
Please don’t ask me how long it took to realise that the cart was not actually going anywhere.
Also, I confess to having thought there were 45 kids on each side… until they mentioned there were only 9 in total and I realised it was 4-5.
I really did not get a sense of this… would you care to elaborate?
I found a couple of the missing meanings, I’ll put them in the list.
