Feeling strangely guilty about being visibly out of sorts, I deliberated about whether to confess about the impasse I’d come up against, or to declare the matter over and reply with great self-possession about how the vote seemed set to go to 100 Famous Mountains of Japan, but even the fact of having to make that call started to seem unnecessarily stressful, so I just shook my head and said, ‘No, no, I’m fine.’
