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Betty
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In my mind, she was the girl born on a staircase who then became a woman torn between taking a step up into the light or a step down into the dark.
“Never before had Descartes been in greater need of an update than in the twenty-first century. Over the last two decades, between first Nokia and then Apple, cogito ergo sum had surely been pushed aside by habeo a phone, ergo sum. But if ‘I have a phone, therefore I am’ were true, what of the phoneless?”
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
“The country came across like an upper-class spinster from a historical novel with impeccable manners who spent her days dabbing the edges of her mouth with a linen napkin while internally tutting at the uncouth dining etiquette of today’s upstarts, id est: the Chinese.”
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
“The lizard would eventually regrow a tail as if losing part of oneself is no great burden after all. If only we could be like the lizards.”
― Betty
― Betty
“Suzuki concurred, positing that Japan’s particular character in intellectual life did not lie in ‘the richness of ideas, or brilliance in articulation’, but in staying ‘quietly content’, feeling ‘at home in the world’.35”
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
“the story of Kuttimani’s death told in the seventh chapter is based on Rajan Hoole’s account in The Arrogance of Power: Myths, Decadence, and Murder; the documentary described in chapter nine is Beate Arnestad and Morten Daae’s My Daughter the Terrorist; the account in chapter nine of Buddhist women’s poetry is based on a translation from the Pali by Charles Hallisey.”
― A Passage North
― A Passage North
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