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In the translator’s preface he quotes Endo’s responses in an interview in which he says “For a long time I was attracted to a meaningless nihilism and when I finally came to realize the fearfulness of such a void I was struck again with the grandeur of the Catholic Faith,” and how the “mud swamp of the Japanese” didn’t allow him and other Japanese to embrace Catholicism. I think that swamp is logic.