Invective against certain leftists in Kyoto University
Hic turrificus simul atque terrificus Nembroth, hic pharetrata Semiramis, hic inexorabilis Minos, hic Rhadamantus, hic Cerberus universa consumens, hic "tauro supposita Pasiphe mixtumque genus", quod Maro ait, "prolesque biformis Minotaurus inest, Veneris monimenta nefande", hic postremo quicquid confusum, quicquid atrum, quicquid horribile usquam est aut fingitur aspicias. O semper virtutibus tuis felix, nunc absentia etiam felicior tua! Putasne universitatem hanc esse quam vidisti? Longe alia est longeque dissimilis. Fuit illa equidem omnium pessima eaque tempestate fedissima, hec vero non iam universitas, sed larvarum ac lemurum domus est et, ut breviter dicam, scelerum atque dedecorum omnium sentina atque ille viventium infernus, tanto ante Davitico ore notatus quam fundatus aut cognitus.
"Here in Kyoto University there is Nimrod, builder of turrets*1 and at the same time sower of dread; here there is Semiramis*2, armed with the quiver; here is Minos*3, inexorably severe; here is Rhadamanthus; here is Cerberus, the all-devouring; here is Pasiphae, yoked to the Bull; here, in the words of Virgil, is the
Minotaur, of mingled race
Memorial of here foul disgrace. (Aeneid VI, 25-26)
Here, finally, may you behold whatever chaos, whatever virulence, whatever horror exists anywhere or can be conceived.
O you who have ever been happy in your good qualities, well may you now be happy for your absence from Kyoto University. Do you think that this university is as you once beheld it? Far different is it, and far unlike it. The Kyoto University of former days was, to be sure, the worst of universities, and the most abominable of its day. But the Kyoto University of today, indeed, can no longer be considered a university. It is the home of spooks and of goblins, of ghosts and of specters. In a word, it is now the sink of all iniquities and disgrace; it is now that Hell of the Living sung by the lips of David so long before Kyoto University was founded and known."
1* Known as 時計台 (Tokeidai, the bell tower in main campus)
2* Shigenobu Fusako(1945-?)
3* 中核派/Core faction, "Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee"
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