Oh

[flemmings]

Seidensticker is dead. Rather an unlikable git in many ways, but still, an institution. And he died in Tokyo, which is devotion. If I had a worrisome medical condition at an advanced age, I'd come home to where there are western doctors. They at least are accountable. Japanese doctors are regarded as God, and think themselves God, and like God reserve the right to slay their worshippers without repercussion.

(Spellcheck suggests 'Seidensticker' wants to be any of Sadistic, Hedonistic, Modernistic, Dynastic, Sternest, Stochastic, Statistic, Stylistic. All of the above, say I, though I need to look up Stochastic.)

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The obit is pretty dense but that might be the policy of the IHT, about whose political stance I know nothing. 'Never married' 'no family.' What about 'long time companions'? though I fancy he probably didn't have many of those either. He was a prickly man, and unless he mellowed immensely in the last twenty years I can't see him happy to go anywhere.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I suppose there's always his unnamed "associate". Who knows.

*rereads obit* Hey, wait a minute...since when was Murasaki Shikibu a "courtesan"?! Hmph.