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This is a hoot.

"History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity. It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched."

"Everything abominable-debauchery, death, madness, pestilence, destruction How was it that such things could so entice the heart and allure the soul outward. Why did souls have to "exist," discarding easy, dark, and quiet dwellings? Why was it that the human heart rejected tranquil inertness?"

"Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth."

"In the fall, it got cold. The sky was dark. Her heart was full of joy. Her heart had taken on the nature of the tree. She stored everything away."

~There was nothing in her face to show that she had once been a prostitute. She had become a small woman of twenty-six with a heart as big as the sea.~

"It was in the nature of authority to fear purity more than any sort of corruption."

"Each passing year, never failing to exact its toll, keeps altering what was sublime into the stuff of comedy. Is something eaten away? If the exterior is eaten away, is it true, then, that the sublime pertains by nature only to an exterior that conceals a core of nonsense? Or does the sublime indeed pertain to the whole, but a ludicrous dust settles upon it?"

Rich in seppuku.

"How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth."

Book 2 🇯🇵