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Pico Iyer
“For some reason I have become terribly serious since arriving here,” Sōseki wrote, in his “Letter from London,” a year after his arrival in England. “Looking and listening to everything around me, I think incessantly of the problem of ‘Japan’s future.’” Its future, then as now, involves trying to make a peace, or form a synthesis, between the ancient Chinese ideal of sitting still and watching the seasons pass, tending to social harmonies, and the new American way of pushing forward individually , convinced that tomorrow will be better than today.”
Pico Iyer, The Gate

Natsume Sōseki
“To be able to muster so many complaints about one little thing— yes, you’ll get ahead, that’s for sure.”
Natsume Sōseki, The Gate

Pico Iyer
“But it speaks for an inner world— and again this is evident in Murakami— that sits in a different dimension from the smooth-running, flawlessly attentive, and all but anonymous machine that keeps public order moving forward so efficiently in Japan.”
Pico Iyer, The Gate

Pico Iyer
“Sōseki is an unusually intimate writer— the public world is only his concern by implication— and in Japan (again as in the England that I know) intimacy is shown not by all that you can say to someone else, but by all that you don’t need to say.”
Pico Iyer, The Gate

“Flying visits don’t work,’ Tom said as we drove home, ‘not for a place you’ve really loved.’ I don’t think he expected us to be back and around much, and maybe this was his way of saying he’d understand that too.”
Ian Walthew, A Place in My Country

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