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"They must charge a hundred yen, two hundred yen, per word or line or whatever, and you can tell that the people who write them really have to rack their brains. Little literary gems, all of them, squeezed out by people sweating and groaning to find just the right word, the most effective phrase. There can't be many pieces of prose in the world that cost this much. It's a delight to read them, somehow."