At the End of the Matinee

by Keiichirō Hirano

But while fiction makes it possible to refrain from revealing some secrets, it is the only way to reveal others.

“People think that only the future can be changed, but in fact, the future is continually changing the past. The past can and does change. It’s exquisitely sensitive and delicately balanced.”

Now I am glad to let time carry me forward as it will.

He had tried listening to Bach and Mozart and dismissed that taste in music as mere snobbism compared to the genuine healing he got from the music he liked.