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He claimed that Mr. Yamada possessed
in his humble way the essence of style,

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and consequently that it was up to him to use his invisible brush
to write upon this first day in Tokyo the words 'the end.'

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I've spent the day in front of my TV set
—that memory box.

:19:28
I was in Nara with the sacred deers.
:19:30
I was taking a picture without knowing
that in the 15th century Basho had written:

:19:34
"The willow sees the heron's image... upside down."
:19:50
The commercial becomes a kind of haiku to the eye,
:19:52
used to Western atrocities in this field;
not understanding obviously adds to the pleasure.

:19:57
For one slightly hallucinatory moment
I had the impression that I spoke Japanese,

:20:01
but it was a cultural program on NHK
about Gérard de Nerval.

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8:40, Cambodia.
:20:36
From Jean Jacques Rousseau to the Khmer Rouge:
coincidence, or the sense of history?

:20:41
In Apocalypse Now, Brando said a few definitive
and incommunicable sentences:

:20:46
"Horror has a face and a name...
you must make a friend of horror."

:20:59
To cast out the horror that has a name and a face
you must give it another name and another face.


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