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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.
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So when will the third floor of Macy's harbor an exhibition of Japanese sacred signs
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such as can be seen at Josen-kai on the island of Hokkaido?
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At first one smiles at this place which combines a museum,
a chapel, and a sex shop.
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As always in Japan, one admires the fact that
the walls between the realms are so thin
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that one can in the same breath contemplate a statue,
buy an inflatable doll,