The Tale of Genji
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Started reading May 22, 2024
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insisted that she get up. “You must not be so unfriendly,
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on our gillyflower bed covered now only with dust!”68 He must have had in mind the pinks of the
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“Now I go to see whether yonder on that shore where seafolk burn salt their fires send such smoke aloft as rose at Toribeno.”
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“Is this then the pain of parting at dawn?
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no, in a world evermore gone mad that would only make things worse.”
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“Ah, river of tears! The froth floating on that stream will vanish quite soon, long before the current runs laughing over happier shoals.”16