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I never personally met the madman who wrote

these notebooks. However, I have a bare acquaintance

with the woman who, as far as I can judge, figures in

these notebooks as the madam of a bar in Kyobaahi.

She is a slightly-built, rather sickly-looking woman,

with narrow, tilted eyes and a prominent nose. Something

hard about her gives you the impression less of

a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

The events described in the notebooks seem to relate

mainly to the Tokyo of 1930 or so, but it was not until

about 1935, when the Japanese military clique was

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