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which he found invaded by little girls and rock singers.
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He was told that it was now little girls who made and unmade stars;
the producers shuddered before them.
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He was told that a disfigured woman
took off her mask in front of passers-by
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and scratched them if they did not find her beautiful.
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Everything interested him.
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He who didn't give a damn if the Dodgers won the pennant
or about the results of the Daily Double
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asked feverishly how Chiyonofuji had done
in the last sumo tournament.
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He asked for news of the imperial family, of the crown prince, ...
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of the oldest mobster in Tokyo who appears regularly
on television to teach goodness to children.
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These simple joys he had never felt: of returning to
a country, a house, a family home.
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But twelve million anonymous inhabitants could supply him with them.
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He wrote: Tokyo is a city crisscrossed by trains,
tied together with electric wire she shows her veins.
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They say that television makes her people illiterate;
as for me, I've never seen so many people reading in the streets.