
Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)

Your head is alive, but if you seal it up inside dead classes, you’re lost. Take it outside and get the wind into it. Riding the streetcar is not the only way to get satisfaction, of course, but it’s the first step, and the easiest.”
Natsume Soseki • Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
the Noh drum.41 I don’t
Natsume Soseki • Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
Nonomiya at home, but he took the wrong street near the Ochiai crematorium and ended up at Takata. He took the train home from Mejiro.
Natsume Soseki • Sanshiro (Penguin Classics)
“Have you ever tried to translate Mount Fuji?” “Translate…?” “It’s fun. Whenever you translate nature it turns into something human. ‘Noble,’ say, or ‘great,’ or ‘heroic.’ ” Sanshirō saw what he meant by “translate.” “It always gives you a word having to do with character. Nature can’t influence the character of someone who can’t translate nature i
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