The Way Japan Had Tried To Build

I Think I Am Doing My Works To Link Myself, My Family, With Society — With The Cosmos. To Link Me With My Family To The Cosmos, That Is Easy, Because All Literature Has Some Mystic Tendency. So When We Write About Our Family, We Can Link Ourselves To The Cosmos.

There Could Be Joy In Destruction, Too, Couldn't There? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming Supposed To Occur Only After A Lot Of Unmitigated Destruction? But Again, Human History Is Fraught With Tragedies In Which Man Spared No Effort To Destroy With Millenarian Joy, Only To Learn That No Messiah Appeared Afterwards.

I Don't Think Young People Need To See The Face Of The Deceased.

Fundamentally A Good Author Has His Or Her Own Sense Of Style. There Is A Natural, Deep Voice, And That Voice Is Present From The First Draft Of A Manuscript. When He Or She Elaborates On The Initial Manuscript, It Continues To Strengthen And Simplify That Natural, Deep Voice.

The Destination Of The Soul: This Is What I, Led On By Nils Holgersson, Came To Seek In The Literature Of Western Europe. I Fervently Hope That My Pursuit, As A Japanese, Of Literature And Culture Will, In Some Small Measure, Repay Western Europe For The Light It Has Shed Upon The Human Condition.