My real face ② - Boy T

Tulip (CG)

Although the boy T was timid,、It was also cruel。When I played with friends, I sometimes got a little shy and fidgeted behind my back.、I get bolder when I'm alone、Surprisingly, he had no problem killing living things.。
Most of his prey are small animals、The most common one was frogs.。When the snow melts、Frogs are wriggling everywhere out of nowhere.。Shoot it with a handmade bow。The arrow is a stem of pampas grass、There were many around。それをナイフで鋭角に切り取り緩んできた地面に突き刺すと茎のなかの空洞に泥が入り先端部だけ適当に重くなる矢は先が重くないとうまく飛ばないのだ

strangely、カエルを殺しているという意識は彼の中に全然浮かばなかったむしろ正確に矢を射ることだけに意識が集中していたカエルには恐ろしい敵だが彼にとってはカエルは動きの遅いただの標的に過ぎなかったしかもそれは彼だけの遊びではなかった友達もみな自分で作った弓を持っていて同じようにカエルを練習台に熱心に弓の腕を競い合っていたのだったやがて暖かくなりカエルの声が田んぼから聞こえるころには弓のことも射られたカエルのこともきれいさっぱり忘れて小魚を追うのに夢中になった
 小魚もまた彼の遊び道具の一つに過ぎず彼にとってそれは「生き物」ではなく「さかな」という「動くモノ」であったカエルと少し違うのは時々は家に持ち帰って食べることもあることくらいたいていはさかなを捕まえるところまでしか彼の興味はなかった捕まえたあとその小魚をどうしたかさえ覚えてはいなかったただひたすら捕まえることよりすばしこく捕えることが難しければ難しいほど小さなさかなたちは彼の興味を駆り立てた捕まえた小魚の手の中でぴちぴちと激しくくねるくすぐったい感触は彼を有頂天にさせたそしてぬめりの中に光る極小の鱗うっすらと浮かび上がる斑点の美しさを美しいという言葉さえ思い浮かべずに感じてもいた

もう少し大きくなってからは狙う獲物も大きくなったもうカエルや小魚は卒業していた素潜りと魚釣りの時期を過ぎアケビや山葡萄も終わって冬になるとT たちは野ウサギを狙うようになったそれは肉も毛皮も確かに有用でありそれを目的に彼の友人たちも雪の中を歩きまわっていたが彼の興味の中心はやはりそれを捕まえるまでであった獲物の生態を調べその能力を上回る方法で捕まえることそれが T の願いであり理想だったほかの少年たちがウサギ狩りにも飽きて山へ行かなくなるころとうとう狐が彼の対象になった

狐は彼の相手にふさわしい警戒心と周到さそして知力とパワーを持っていたすぐに彼は狐の能力に驚嘆し一種の憧れにも近い感情を持ちはじめたこの美しくも優れた獲物を自分だけの力で捕らえたいその一方でどうか自分が仕掛けた罠を凌ぎ生き延びてほしいそんな矛盾した感情を狐に対して持つようになっていった
 「罠にかかったらどうしようか」今度は彼も捉えたあとのことを真剣に考えないわけにはいかなかったいま彼の狙っているのは足跡の大きさから考えてある程度の大物だと予想していたおそらく中型の犬くらいはあるだろう祖父の部屋の長押にぶら下がっていた自分の身長ほどもある大きな狐の襟巻を彼は思い浮かべた―あれより大きいかも―そいつが罠にかかったときの死に物狂いの抵抗を T は想像した「逃がしてやるのが一番危険で難しい」彼は何度も頭の中でうまく逃がしてやる方法をシミュレーションしてみたがうまい方法が思いつかなかった鋭い牙で噛まれ自分も大怪我をする可能性の方が大きい―手早く殺すしかないがどうやって?
 獲物の逃げ場をせばめ足場の悪いところに追い込んでいる以上自分の足場の幅もぎりぎり斜めでしかも凍っている足が滑れば足元の深い淵の中へ自分が落ちてしまう棍棒で殴り殺すにしてもすぐ頭上には細い枝が網の目のように絡み合っている―棍棒を振り上げるスペースは無い―彼はその場面を脳の奥の方でゆっくり精細なビデオで検証するように繰り返していた

 少年 T のお話はここまでわたしの夢の中で T は今でも時々獲物を追っているがもう捕まえる気持ちはないらしいけれど彼らを追い詰めるまでの緊張感とそれを逃れていく動物たちの本当のカッコよさにいつまでも夢から覚めたくない思いがある―夢の覚め際にかならず T はそう言うのである

 
 

My real face ①

One day's dream (CG)

The wonderful words "new daily life"、Being labeled with the outrageous epithet “With Corona”、Moreover, as expected, it was taken over by politicians.。It's really a waste。But in that case、What was your “everyday life” and “normal daily life” like?。I felt like it wouldn't be a bad idea to take another look at my feet.。

This is why、First, I decided to make a simple sketch of my current face.。First of all, appearance。For now, let's assume the age is less than 100 years old.。As of today (2021.2.5)、Height: 169cm、Weight 68.1kg、Body fat percentage 18.5% (slightly obese) and back pain for 8 years.。Avoid carrying heavy luggage as much as possible。bald on top of head、eyes are nearsighted、My ears are also quite far away.。Compared to friends of the same age, 10 years seems older.。What kind of silhouette do you imagine? A bent old man with a cane?

face? More than a true face、I have to draw the face first.。-The head is relatively small (probably the brain too)、Because I have a lot of hair that I don't take care of (there aren't that many)、When I look at my own shadow, it looks huge, like mohair.。My eyes are as thin as the size of a thread and a piece of wool (when I was in junior high school)、(It was often mistaken for falling asleep)、Thin eyebrows and drooping corners of the eyes。The nose is neither high nor low。Neither aquiline nor pointed nose、Basically an average nose。Don't talk。I can't open it particularly wide.、Because I'm not an idiot、Is this also normal?。However、What I noticed when I looked at my mother's photo、The shape of wrinkles that form under the closed corners of the mouth。I'm sure it wasn't there when I was a child.、Appears when you get older、this must be genetic。In terms of the whole face、The Earth's gravity is stronger as you go from the center line to the edges.。My jaw isn't particularly square, though.、He's not as thin as the handsome guy he is now.。But ok、I guess he's a very easy-going person.。I don't have any beard other than stubble.。My teeth are healthy、I have a dentist's approval for having missing teeth.。

Hobbies: I do write haiku.、I'm not so hooked on it yet that I can say it's a hobby.。I feel like I have to get a little deeper into it before I can call it a hobby.。But it's been going on for 10 years。My ambitious works often receive almost 0 points at haiku gatherings.。It's the type of phrase that makes you feel empty.。I have no connection to sports these days.、When I was young, I loved moving my body, so I'm still interested in it.。athletics、baseball、Sumo、swimming、mountain climbing、including skiing、I still want to do everything。Oh dear、Let's just say I love watching and doing it.。In one word, I love studying.、“The type who doesn’t seek results” (I was able to put it in a good way)。Speaking of words that I don't like, like effort and perseverance.、You should be able to imagine the level of achievement in studies and sports.。

write this far、Now that you can sketch your real face,、3 points out of 100 for “my view of sketching”、Wonder。I just published the primary data.。

There are things that don't change

"Apple-Reading" (CG)

Most of the day today、I was watching YouTube。Last night I happened to see a video by Kantaro Suzuki called ``Understanding Euler's formula through junior high school mathematics.''。2、3It became a hot topic a year ago、There is a link to a book with the same title.。I had seen a glimpse of the book at a bookstore at the time.、It was around the time that the movie ``The Mathematical Formula That the Doctor Loved'' was becoming a hot topic.。Last year, Professor Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University、It became an international topic of conversation for completely proving one of the most difficult problems in mathematics, the ABC conjecture.。Although it was quite a while ago、More than 300 years after Fermat's death、Even when it was announced that ``Fermat's Last Theorem'', famous as a historically difficult problem that no one could solve, had been completely proven.、The whole world was excited。There seems to be a bit of a mathematics boom in the streets in recent years.。

including me、There must be a lot of people who are not good at mathematics.。However, even such a person、Into the abstract and concise world of mathematics、It is not uncommon for people to have feelings similar to admiration.。Mathematics is the first step to science。What has been proven mathematically、No matter how much you like it or hate it、Even if you don't feel comfortable with it, you can't help but admit it.。If there is such a thing as truth, this is it.、We somehow think that。I don't understand that at all、Rather than being embarrassed、I even feel in my heart that it might actually be bad.。But、Even if I pull out my math book,、I think most people will give up again because this is so unreliable.。

That's、Euler's mathematics、It is said that the mathematical formulas of great geniuses in the field of physics can be understood with the knowledge of junior high school students.、It was stuck in the back of my mind.。動画を見ると中学生までの数学しか使わないというのではなく「中学生までの数学的知識があればその上に三角関数や微分積分などの説明を加えて」オイラーの公式まで理解できるようにするというものだ確かに理解力のある中学生なら可能かもと思わせる平易で見事な説明だった(中身は全然平易ではない)興味ある方はご覧あれ東大入試問題として有名な「円周率πが3.5より小さいことを証明せよ」もさりげないがとても面白かった

 流れでヨビのりたくみ氏(初めて知った)の「アインシュタインの(特殊)相対性理論」も見てしまったがこれも説明がじつに上手こんな授業を中学高校でやってくれたらもう少し違う道に進んだかもと思うがそれは仕方ないコロナコロナで世の中沈む一方しかも対策が支離滅裂状態だがハヤブサはちゃんと地球に帰ってくるし地球の自転も一瞬だって止まらないただ現象だけにつられて右往左往するのでなく、Those that do not change、視点の置き場所を考えることで世界はもう少し違ってくると感じた一日