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It isn't that men are 'so blinded by beauty' as that if a woman acts as if she's attractive they take it she is, as Johnny observed on Uphall Main Street, dreading becoming a fool on puberty. There is though 'nothing quite like an apprentice geisha from Gion.' 'I'd been afraid I'd have to find some way of pleasing him but... all I had to do was follow orders.' All I remember of the Tale of Genji is the smell.
— Jan 12, 2021 10:12AM
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If you like, 'Could you take out the garbage later?' 'There was no garbage in the entryway; she was talking about me,' this book is for you. Keeping an expensive geisha was a status symbol. 'Which, incidentally, was the manufacturer of the heater that killed Granny' amuses. A description of dandruff falling like snow reminded me of Alasdair Gray's rasping his brow (a footnote in the unpublished CORRESPONDENCE).
— Jan 11, 2021 10:44AM
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Which is better? 'Wherever he was taking us, I preferred it to being cast out alone into that great expanse of buildings, as foreign to me as the bottom of the sea' or '“Go with the nurse.” Does she expect me to do other? to run after her or past, into a strange city of huge buildings. The nurse, herself foreign, is my best option in an unfamiliar environment of which the hospital is most easily assimilable part.’
— Jan 08, 2021 09:40AM
