Thank you for sharing, and I agree, that's another great way to get exposed to some new ways of thinking.
It's a bit cliche these days, but I enjoy rather a lot of Japanese pop-culture, mostly anime and manga, but I also thoroughly enjoyed reading Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi. Manga-wise, the series I'm currently enjoying is called "Witch Hat Atelier", about an adolescent girl learningto do magic. Even though it has a thoroughly "magic as technology" world, it uses magic as a metaphor to explore the artistic creative process, and the drawings are stunningly beautiful.
If you do film, Bollywood also offers a very interesting take, as it's so clearly inspired by Western cinema, and yet very clearly from a different culture. I've heard Egypt fulfills a similar role for the middle east, but I don't have any personal experience there, despite marrying into a half-Egyptian family.
Otherwise, my own reading has mostly been expanding my firmly Western horizons - Goethe's Faust, Hesse's Glass Bead Game, re-reading the Mabinogion, Dickens, Doestevsky, C.S. Lewis.
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Re: New Year's Symbel---a slightly different topic
Date: 2023-01-03 04:30 am (UTC)It's a bit cliche these days, but I enjoy rather a lot of Japanese pop-culture, mostly anime and manga, but I also thoroughly enjoyed reading Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi. Manga-wise, the series I'm currently enjoying is called "Witch Hat Atelier", about an adolescent girl learningto do magic. Even though it has a thoroughly "magic as technology" world, it uses magic as a metaphor to explore the artistic creative process, and the drawings are stunningly beautiful.
If you do film, Bollywood also offers a very interesting take, as it's so clearly inspired by Western cinema, and yet very clearly from a different culture. I've heard Egypt fulfills a similar role for the middle east, but I don't have any personal experience there, despite marrying into a half-Egyptian family.
Otherwise, my own reading has mostly been expanding my firmly Western horizons - Goethe's Faust, Hesse's Glass Bead Game, re-reading the Mabinogion, Dickens, Doestevsky, C.S. Lewis.
Cheers,
Jeff