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A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything. (p. 44)

— Sei Shōnagon The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (1002)

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It is a piece of writing replete with those typical Japanese wistful and melancholic evocations of ephemerality. It was written a thousand years ago almost exactly to the year the film was made, and it was written by a woman.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior! (p. 46)

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