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177"It's been ten years. I suppose he may be deadalready. He must have sent the notebooks to you byway of thanks. Some parte are rather exaggerated Ican tell, but you obviously suffered a hell of a lotat his hands. If everything written in these notebooksis true, I probably would have wanted to put him inan insane asylum myself if I were his friend.""It's his father's fault," she said unemotionally."The Yoxo we knew was so easy-going and amusing,and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he diddrink—he was a good hoy, an angel." ^^"o 1 ?*->>Oe
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ALSO BY OSAMU DA2AITHE SETTING SVN
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Copyright © 1958by New Directions
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TRANSLATOR'SINTRODUCTION
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4One aspect of The SettingSun puzzl
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ever, we do not wish to resemble th
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8rest of Asia, the Western nations
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10a mistake, I am sure. Dazai had t
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t*->^/ Alt/A4vacant -hy to LhG>i\I
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15college days. At any rate, he is
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17suggests nothing so much as a hum
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>tMine has been a life of much sham
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23in two facing rows at table. Bein
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25everyone else was so great as to
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27As a child I had absolutely no no
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29I must avoid is becoming offensiv
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31think of any suitably clownish re
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33I used to subscribe regularly to
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35I had succeeded in appearing misc
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37expressions of genuine delight on
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THE SECONDNOTEBOOK
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42strewn with cherry blossoms serve
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44training period while the rest of
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46about getting back to their lodgi
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48without saying a word in return b
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50The two cousins in whose house I
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52to ascertain the feelings by whic
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54had this mentality, after repeate
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56no escape from it, but naturally
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58Seven Ronin.) Instead I would spe
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601 started, "I've been thinking I'
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62wanted in the shortest possible t
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64beings, to seek a mere night of r
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66honor. Everything he said seemed
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68attitudes in which I have gone on
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70ality, but the comrades kept them
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72thought it a good strategy to mak
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74bothering to eat, she invariably
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76disposed of them immediately to t
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78about money. I felt, rather, as i
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80She rambled on, but I have never
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82I didn't meet my benefactor of th
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84aback: Tsuneko was going to be ki
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86first time I had ever drunk so mu
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88The incident was treated rather p
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90of my punishment depended solely
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92father always called him by that
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94brought no joy. I felt utterly wr
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One of Takeichi's predictions came
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99Antiques," was the only impressiv
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101He asked, "What do you plan to d
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103"What kind of problems?" I reall
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105 f^CtSK-S W ;yi mbottom. It was
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107have been a twisted form of my w
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109busily stitching and pounding st
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over it taught me a lesson in the p
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113I led for the first time the lif
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115cartoons you're always drawing f
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117I was frightened even by God. I
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119might on the surface seem striki
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121become. Or, as Shigeko had it, I
Page 123 and 124: 123Sometimes I spent the night out.
Page 125 and 126: 125and suchlike things, but the obj
Page 127 and 128: 127sacks of rice are wasted in one
Page 129 and 130: 129Better be merry with the fruitfu
Page 131 and 132: 131"There's no doubt about it. I'll
Page 133 and 134: 133staggering—so far surpassing w
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Page 137 and 138: 139I answered nonchalantly, "It doe
Page 139 and 140: 141We began a guessing game of trag
Page 141 and 142: 143"Aren't there bees—or is it an
Page 143 and 144: 145Imagine saying that the law was
Page 145 and 146: 147letters r-i-c-e. Rice. I'm hungr
Page 147 and 148: 149lost all confidence in myself, d
Page 149 and 150: 151afraid, no matter how much I tri
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Page 153 and 154: 155The madam of the bar in Kyobashi
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Page 157 and 158: 159That was all. Without saying a w
Page 159 and 160: 161forget how weak my body was, and
Page 161 and 162: 163matter how painful it is. That's
Page 163 and 164: 165face, "I hear you've coughed blo
Page 165 and 166: 167tics claim the same thing. What
Page 167 and 168: 169a curious manner by the old serv
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