Status Updates From The 210th Day

What the. I can see this being a play. About tofu sellers? Serves me right for starting yet another book…

«Non capirò mai perché la povera gente continua a essere maltrattata. Anche noi produttori e venditori di tōfu meritiamo di essere rispettati come chiunque altro, ma i ricchi e i nobili si divertono a tormentarci solo per il piacere di farlo»
«Quando ti hanno fatto del male?»
«Non importa. I tiranni sono sempre malvagi. Anche il XX secolo ne è pieno. Il guaio è che in apparenza sono tutti irreprensibili»

«[…] Con le loro belle facce gli uomini sono capaci di azioni spregevoli. Ora, chi è povero può al massimo danneggiare sé stesso. Il problema sono i personaggi influenti, che con le loro nefandezze avvelenano l'intera società. Loro sì che sono nocivi. E il più delle volte si tratta di persone ricche e influenti».

"Ha, ha, ha, ha! If you are so anxious to hear
about it, I'll tell you. In exchange, however, you
will have to rejoin the ranks of the Austere Ones.
The problem with you is that you've never had
any dealings with the rotten rich: that's why
you're so carefree. Have you read Dickens' novel
A Tale of Two Cities by any chance?"

"Face to face with that vital phenomenon of
Nature at its most sublime, we must open our
minds to the grandiose and rise above the cares of
this world."
"But if you aim too high, you will no longer be
able to endure the world afterwards, and in the
end it will be all the harder to bear. Having said
that, let us assume that one only aims just as high
as necessary-! do not think I have the legs to
conquer mountains."

"I'm penalized for them too! Look, stop getting
me to pay for them. You must go to the rich and
noble themselves."
"That's certainly what I mean to do one day.
They are cowards, they don't understand anything about anything, and as human beings
they're not worth a penny."

"I'm not a tofu seller's son for nothing. If one's
not big and strong, one can't fight the well-born
and the wealthy. It's one against all of them."
"You talk as if you really had an enemy. Who is
it at present?"
"Just anybody."

"I'm not a tofu seller's son for nothing. If one's
not big and strong, one can't fight the well-born
and the wealthy. It's one against all of them."
"You talk as if you really had an enemy. Who is
it at present?"
"Just anybody."

"If that happens, what will you do?"
"If that happens, it will be the fault of society.
Whatever happens, I for my part will have done
what has to be done to make an unjust society
just, and if it does not learn the lesson, whose
fault is that?"