{"id":261,"date":"2005-03-07T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2005\/03\/07\/shoganai\/"},"modified":"2005-03-07T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T00:05:00","slug":"shoganai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2005\/03\/07\/shoganai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoganai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone that might read newspapers, or go to work over a period of 20 or 30 years, and for those of us who act within a commercial culture, even before we turn on satellite news from around the world – a reasonable person might despair. If all that is open to us is the information on offer, then life is too hard. So, perhaps a reasonable response is simply to give up. There’s nothing we can do. <\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of the EP Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With,<\/i> the Japanese title of the EP is Shoganai<\/i>, which in Japan has a very, very different resonance. A French translation might be c’est la vie<\/i>. An English approach would be that’s life<\/i>. But neither of these quite have the flavour of the Japanese, which is more or less along the lines of two atomic bombs have gone off… that’s life<\/i>! Well, it’s a bit more than that’s life<\/i>! It’s shoganai<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Q: It’s fate?<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

RF: Well, that’s another expression. But if two bombs went off down the road from me, I think I might say a bit more than that’s fate<\/i>! In Japan shoganai<\/i> is a wonderfully multivalent word which covers just about every circumstance: from someone I love has just been crushed on the subway<\/i> to there is no hope whatsoever<\/i>. It can be a very powerfully emotive word in Japan. You have a sense of hopelessness and despair – a reasonable person might despair. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, hope is unreasonable. And love is greater than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Robert Fripp<\/a> is a genius. Thank you, mystery guy.
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