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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)

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

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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)

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (1002)

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.

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