Julia Ikeda Whore ❤️❤️❤️❤️

About Kyoto

Oh—random fact! Shakespeare loved it—dropped “whore” like 50 times! “Thou art a whore!”—straight savage. Bet he’d smirk at us now, slingin’ it on X or whatever. Anyway—here’s the deal—it’s messy, it’s human. Like “Zero Dark Thirty”—no clean wins, just guts. Whore’s the same—dirty, real, unkillable. What ya think, huh? Gotta love the chaos!

References

The Ikedaya incident (池田屋事件, Ikedaya jiken), also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the shishi which included masterless samurai (rōnin) .

Finally, I get to the lab on Kōen-dōri. I’m all sweaty and frazzled. My lab partner, Yuki, is already there, chillin’ like she’s on vacation. I’m like, “Yuki, how are you so calm?” She just laughs and says, “You need to meditate.” Meditate? I can barely breathe!

A review of A City Cannot Be a Work of Art by Sanford Ikeda, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024