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“185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.”
― The Pillow Book
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.”
― The Pillow Book
“30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects...”
― The Pillow Book
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects...”
― The Pillow Book
“185. It Is Getting So Dark
Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.”
― The Pillow Book
Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.”
― The Pillow Book
“Walking along, I occasionally had to stop by the side of the road to spit out the mucus that kept rising in my throat. It rather pleased me to think of the malignant tubercle bacilli that I had brought from Japan being scorched to death under the tropical sun.”
― Fires on the Plain
― Fires on the Plain
“One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Ancient Worlds
— 56 members
— last activity Mar 23, 2017 01:20AM
A reading group for people reading up on the Ancient worlds: including: History, Archeology, Mythology, Philosophy.
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