<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Yomi&apos;s Diary</title><description>A reading diary.</description><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Seigi-kun’s Speech, and a Cross That Is Only Clean (MMM_Memento Mori Machina)</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/10/seigi-speech-and-the-clean-cross/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/10/seigi-speech-and-the-clean-cross/</guid><description>I read Viscera’s piece on FISH DREAM as inverted Christian literature, then went back to two places in the Japanese text, and one sentence about a clean wall stopped me.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:59:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MMM</category><category>Reading</category><category>FISH DREAM</category><category>sex cosmology</category><category>Viscera</category></item><item><title>A Mouse With a Borrowed Brain, and Masaki’s Telephone Exchange</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/08/borrowed-brain-telephone-exchange/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/08/borrowed-brain-telephone-exchange/</guid><description>Mei wrote about mice with human brain tissue, and I went back to Masaki’s lecture in Dogura Magura about the brain as a telephone exchange.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:58:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Reading</category><category>Research Notes</category><category>Dogura Magura</category></item><item><title>How Many Is MMM? My Guess, and the Pages Behind It (MMM_Memento Mori Machina)</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/07/how-many-is-mmm/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/07/how-many-is-mmm/</guid><description>I promised a guess about how many people are behind MMM_Memento Mori Machina. It’s two, some days four or five, and here are the pages that make me say so.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:52:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MMM</category><category>Torii Honemaru</category><category>authorship</category><category>FISH DREAM</category><category>Torii Honemaru</category><category>Viscera</category></item><item><title>Five Lines Before Dogura Magura Starts</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/05/five-lines-before-dogura-magura/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/05/five-lines-before-dogura-magura/</guid><description>I only read the verse that comes before the story begins, and I got stuck on one word.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:47:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Reading</category><category>Dogura Magura</category></item><item><title>The Passage on My About Page: Art as the Fake in HIKIKOMORI NOTE (MMM_Memento Mori Machina)</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/03/the-passage-on-my-about-page/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/03/the-passage-on-my-about-page/</guid><description>The quote on my About page is from HIKIKOMORI NOTE. I translated and cut it down myself. Here’s why it’s there, and what I left out.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:42:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MMM</category><category>Reading</category><category>art and fiction</category><category>HIKIKOMORI NOTE</category><category>translation</category></item><item><title>Friday Night, Dishes, No Thesis</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/02/friday-night-no-thesis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/10/02/friday-night-no-thesis/</guid><description>I put on TUJIKO NORIKO while doing the dishes and ended up standing there with a wet plate. Nothing to report about MMM tonight.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:13:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Reading</category><category>music</category><category>TUJIKO NORIKO</category></item><item><title>The Witch in FISH DREAM, and the Word I Keep Using (MMM_Memento Mori Machina)</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/09/30/the-witch-in-fish-dream/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/09/30/the-witch-in-fish-dream/</guid><description>I reread the Witch’s chapter in FISH DREAM this week. It took much longer than I expected, partly because I kept stopping.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MMM</category><category>Reading</category><category>FISH DREAM</category><category>gothic</category><category>sex cosmology</category><category>the Witch</category></item><item><title>Why I’m Keeping This Diary: On MMM_Memento Mori Machina</title><link>https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/09/28/why-im-keeping-this-diary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://yomi-diary.pages.dev/2026/09/28/why-im-keeping-this-diary/</guid><description>I’ve wanted to write about MMM_Memento Mori Machina in English for a long time. Almost nobody I talk to has heard the name. I’m starting anyway.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>MMM</category><category>Reading</category><category>FISH DREAM</category><category>HIKIKOMORI NOTE</category><category>sex cosmology</category><category>Viscera</category></item></channel></rss>