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mish-teareddit.comStories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings. That they appeal to what we share as human beings across our borders and divides. There are large glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in
... See moreWhat I was doing was getting down on paper that world’s special colours, mores, etiquettes, its dignity, its shortcomings, everything I’d ever thought about the place, before they faded forever from my mind. It was my wish to re-build my Japan in fiction, to make it safe, so that I could thereafter point to a book and say: ‘Yes, there’s my Japan,
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When I’m Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem
nytimes.com
On Monet’s waterlillies:
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.
Here is the aura of that world
each of us has lost.
Here is the shadow of its joy”