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“Sin . . . is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and be quite oblivious of the wounds he left behind.” (92)

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.