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THE THIRD NOTEBOOK: PART ONE
One of Takeichi's predictions came true, the otherwent astray. The inglorious prophecy that womenwould fall for me turned out just as he said, but thehappy one, that I should certainly become a greatartist, failed to materialize.I never managed to become anything more impressivethan an unknown, second-rate cartoonistemployed by the cheapest magazines.I was expelled from college on account of the97
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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
Page 45 and 46: 44training period while the rest of
Page 47 and 48: 46about getting back to their lodgi
Page 49 and 50: 48without saying a word in return b
Page 51 and 52: 50The two cousins in whose house I
Page 53 and 54: 52to ascertain the feelings by whic
Page 55 and 56: 54had this mentality, after repeate
Page 57 and 58: 56no escape from it, but naturally
Page 59 and 60: 58Seven Ronin.) Instead I would spe
Page 61 and 62: 601 started, "I've been thinking I'
Page 63 and 64: 62wanted in the shortest possible t
Page 65 and 66: 64beings, to seek a mere night of r
Page 67 and 68: 66honor. Everything he said seemed
Page 69 and 70: 68attitudes in which I have gone on
Page 71 and 72: 70ality, but the comrades kept them
Page 73 and 74: 72thought it a good strategy to mak
Page 75 and 76: 74bothering to eat, she invariably
Page 77 and 78: 76disposed of them immediately to t
Page 79 and 80: 78about money. I felt, rather, as i
Page 81 and 82: 80She rambled on, but I have never
Page 83 and 84: 82I didn't meet my benefactor of th
Page 85 and 86: 84aback: Tsuneko was going to be ki
Page 87 and 88: 86first time I had ever drunk so mu
Page 89 and 90: 88The incident was treated rather p
Page 91 and 92: 90of my punishment depended solely
Page 93 and 94: 92father always called him by that
Page 95: 94brought no joy. I felt utterly wr
Page 99 and 100: 99Antiques," was the only impressiv
Page 101 and 102: 101He asked, "What do you plan to d
Page 103 and 104: 103"What kind of problems?" I reall
Page 105 and 106: 105 f^CtSK-S W ;yi mbottom. It was
Page 107 and 108: 107have been a twisted form of my w
Page 109 and 110: 109busily stitching and pounding st
Page 111 and 112: over it taught me a lesson in the p
Page 113 and 114: 113I led for the first time the lif
Page 115 and 116: 115cartoons you're always drawing f
Page 117 and 118: 117I was frightened even by God. I
Page 119 and 120: 119might on the surface seem striki
Page 121 and 122: 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
Page 135 and 136: 5 &lloriki and myself.Despising eac
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
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149lost all confidence in myself, d
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151afraid, no matter how much I tri
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153defences should have yielded onl
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155The madam of the bar in Kyobashi
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157stead I would rush out into the
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159That was all. Without saying a w
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161forget how weak my body was, and
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163matter how painful it is. That's
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165face, "I hear you've coughed blo
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167tics claim the same thing. What
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169a curious manner by the old serv
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EPILOGUE
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174first beginning to rampage in th
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176mersed in reading the notebooks
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