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Meanwhile, I have no difficulty with local earthquakes.
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But I must say that last night's quake
helped me greatly to grasp a problem.
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Poetry is born of insecurity:
wandering Jews, quaking Japanese;
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by living on a rug that jesting nature
is ever ready to pull out from under them
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they've got into the habit of moving
about in a world of appearances: fragile, fleeting, revocable,
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of trains that fly from planet to planet,
of samurai fighting in an immutable past.
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That's called 'the impermanence of things.'
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I did it all.
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All the way to the evening shows for adultsso called.
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The same hypocrisy as in the comic strips,
but it's a coded hypocrisy.
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Censorship is not the mutilation of the show,
it is the show.
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The code is the message.
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It points to the absolute by hiding it.
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That's what religions have always done.
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That year, a new face appeared among the great ones
that blazon the streets of Tokyo: the Pope's.
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Treasures that had never left the Vatican were shown
on the seventh floor of the Sogo department store.
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He wrote me:
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curiosity of course, and the glimmer
of industrial espionage in the eye
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I imagine them bringing out within two years time a more efficient
and less expensive version of Catholicism
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but there's also the fascination associated with the sacred,
even when it's someone else's.