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The following memo, which looks like nothing more than the ramblings of a deranged person, has been retrieved from the unpublished articles of the missing owner of this no+e account. It’s easy to imagine that, to many reasonable people, the adjective “ridiculous” would seem the most appropriate description for this disjointed string of words.

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① 秋津島 モルドール避け 酸性の 虚無に飛び込む ファンタ―ジエン

② 三角帽子 葬造力の シン・ふぉにー 瑞穂の国の 過去・ふぉにー

③ 轢死漢 目から鱈出る 幽谷の 小体みたり 嬰理暗

④ 難聴 シファカ 発心時 多少の狼狽 怨嗟の中

⑤ 陰翳礼讃 称揚和算 情緒妄賛 心察改竄 Math解散


Using the same account, the present commentator, who happens to know the author, wishes to decipher and annotate the above laughably childish verses.
The author evidently was completely ignorant of Japanese style of poetry, but was merely imitating the style.
According to a memo attached to the article by the author, the original title contained 『五劫の擦り切れ』(Gokō-no Surikire), a phrase in a famous rakugo story Jugemu (寿限無).

In addition, the present commentator is fully aware of the author's somewhat standoffish attitude toward fatrasie… he was not opposed to fatrasie at all, but he preferred pasquinade using convoluted expressions.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pasquinade

① It is obvious that the author was absolutely fond of
    "The NeverEnding Story" / „Die unendliche Geschichte"
by Michael Ende as shown in one of his articles:

The following famous haiku by Matsuo Bashō is deemed to have triggered this verse:
    The old pond—
    A frog jumps in,
    Sound of water.

② This is an annoying verse that is far from being elegant and rather cosmetically challenged. Two things are to be mentioned:

  • 三角帽子 Dunce cap

  • The prefix "Shin" (シン)

The first one, abominably notorious, appeared in the devastating if not decimating Cultural Revolution (1966 ~ 1977) in the modern-day Mordor of the Eurasian continent, though most decent people would associate this with Manuel de Falla's ballet music, «El sombrero de tres picos».
The following article by BBC depicts this nightmare:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-19807561

As for the second theme, there was a trend of adding the prefix "Shin" (シン) to words in the Land of the Rising Sun, primarily triggered by the 2016 film『シン・ゴジラ』"Shin Godzilla,"« Godzilla Resurgence » in French.
The English word "phony", which the author wrote as ふぉにー, describes something not genuine, real, or truthful, intended to deceive or defraud.

This sentence appears to suggest his dark sarcasm on a symphony on the pretext of harmony is nothing but cacophony, which is evident in various TV programs with full of Criminal Investigation and Crime Analysis, a modern version of "dunce cap".

Based on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cacophony

③ This is not a crime scene of a corpse with bulging eyes, but most likely a twisted translation of the following saying:
  One always proclaims the wolf bigger than himself.
Apparently, this is not "politically incorrect" but politically disturbing, and expresses the author's shattering abhorrence of certain people👽

④ This absurdly nonsensical phrasing is not merely a clumsy translation, but a malignant distortion of the famous verse:
    杜牧『江南春
    南朝四百八十寺多少楼台煙雨中

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⑤ This is the most enigmatic verse, but the author probably intended to shed light on strange cult of laypeople who applause

  • Wasan (和算 Japanese mathematics) initiated by Seki Takakazu (関孝和) and further developed to its zenith by Takebe Katahiro/Kenkō (建部賢弘)

  • Oka Kiyoshi (岡潔), not on his brilliant mathematics, but on other things…

with utterly superficial knowledge of mathematics and modicum of intelligence in mathematics.

This is not questioning Wasan; he was merely dismayed by pseudo-patriotic views. In fact, he had repeatedly mentioned Wasan in his articles, one of which is the following:

A fact-based reference to Kiyoshi Oka is found in the following pasquinade by the author with his respect to this renowned mathematician:

陰翳礼讃』 "In Praise of Shadows" is not placed in a negative sense but appears to be a pillow word used purely for rhyming🎵
Although the following article features Moria, it's unlikely that the author was versed in "In Praise of Folly" 『痴愚神礼讃』by Desiderius Erasmus:


[Header Image Credit] Sifaka via Pinterest
Evidently, this is a rendered photo. Since it depicts three monkeys, it might suggest the author had no+er tres monos solitarios in his mind. Even if that were the case, it would stem solely from respect for the artist 🙏 and would in no way be intended as mockery.
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