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64 pages, Paperback
First published February 22, 2018
. . .This was Tokyo, after all; I was no longer in the provinces. But I was at least counting on running water to make up for it. . . . Even in provincial town like the one I came from, piped water was no longer a rarity by then. . . . Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains -- in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone, and the tap water, the fountains, and the ponds, they're all mine. But in that house there was no water I could call my own. (p. 13)
You're afraid of the water that stole your husband, but all you can do is consort with it. It's always around you. As far as you're concerned, he didn't die, he turned to water. What happens on land vanishes in water, and the reverse is true, too.
"People depend on their misfortunes.
We curse them, but actually we're wedded to them, proud of them even.
And you're no exception.
You're afraid of the water that stole your husband, but all you can do is consort with it.
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Water is your greatest fear, but the world of water is also where your deepest fears find a hearing.