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Book cover for Four Pairs of Boots: A 3,200 Kilometre Hike The Length of Japan
Japanese are renowned for having a “public face” that is shown to the outside world, and a “private face” that few outsiders get to see. I felt deeply privileged to see the “private face” of this lovely family who were opening up and ...more
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Nate Silver
“poker is an incredibly mathematical game that depends on making probabilistic judgments amid uncertainty, the same skills that are important in any type of prediction.”
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

“Depuis les siècles des siècles, les rillettes sont du Mans, le piment d’Espelette, le cassoulet de Castelnaudary, la poularde de Bresse, les escargots de Bourgogne, l’andouille de Vire, la saucisse de Strasbourg, la potée est limousine, l’aligot auvergnat, le poussin au riesling alsacien, la bouillabaisse de Marseille, le coq au vin du Berry, la quiche lorraine, la tête de veau sous la mère de Corrèze, l’huître de Marennes, la sole est dieppoise, la mouclade est de La Rochelle, le saucisson chaud de Lyon, les tripes de Caen, le morteau de Morteau et le camembert de Camembert. Chaque petit Français apprend cela plus sûrement que l’orthographe.”
François Hauter, Le bonheur d'être français (Documents)

John Pomfret
“The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was “taking off your pants to fart”—wasted effort.”
John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

Matthew Amster-Burton
“The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you’re watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it’s over. When”
Matthew Amster-Burton, Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

John Pomfret
“Like all Chinese youth, the first sentence he’d learned in school was “Long live Chairman Mao!” To be carrying out the chairman’s orders gave the precocious eleven-year-old a powerful sense of purpose and self-worth. “The more ruthless we are to enemies, the more we love the people,” the team would chant together.”
John Pomfret, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

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