Evil and the Mask

by Fuminori Nakamura

The differences between people are not as great as the differences between humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.

Everyone plays the lead role in their own life. The world progresses through gathering all these leads, through the jumble of different ideas and values. But I planned to drop out of my own play, to expunge myself, to drift into the cracks between the actors who make the world go round.

The plastic surgeon claimed that fate was driven by the combination of people’s character, heredity and environment, and those of the people around them.