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Many noble persons came to the
temple with large gifts of money
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so that Hoichi-the-Earless
became a wealthy man.
1:02:06
The Year 1 900.
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Now, in old Japanese books,
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there have been
curiously preserved
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certain fragments of fiction.
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Why were they left unfinished?
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Perhaps the writer was lazy.
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Perhaps he had a quarrel
with the publisher.
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Perhaps he was suddenly called
away from his little table
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and never came back.
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Perhaps death stopped
his writing brush
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in the middle of a sentence.
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But no mortal could ever tell
why...