Australia→学習院→Essex Uni→文化学院 a teacher, a learner, a believer, yearning to be a philologist. Student of Aikido, Sado, Noh, love the Bard, Austen and language.
100 years ago today women were first granted full membership of Oxford University (for more see bit.ly/2F9egVV). I should have been giving a paper about women & @OED at a conference round now; this has been postponed, but here's a little something I wrote a while ago.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
my season for Dylan Thomas
Faith Healer, an extraordinary theatrical experience! Powerful narrative, to see their eyes so close and hear their words, sighs and breathing through the earphones, you get possessed with the characters! magnificent!
and I watched it in Japan. @michaelsheen#OVFaithHealer