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He wrote me:
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even in the stalls where they sell electronic spare parts
that some hipsters use for jewelry
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there is in the score that is Tokyo a particular staff,
whose rarity in Europe condemns me to a real acoustic exile.
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I mean the music of video games.
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They are fitted into tables.
You can drink, you can lunch, and go on playing.
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They open onto the street.
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By listening to them you can play from memory.
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I saw these games born in Japan
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I later met up with them again all over the world,
but one detail was different.
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At the beginning the game was familiar:
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a kind of anti-ecological beating where the idea was to kill off
as soon as they showed the white of their eyes
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creatures that were either prairie dogs or baby seals,
I can't be sure which.
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Now here's the Japanese variation.
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Instead of the critters, there's some vaguely human heads
identified by a label:
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at the top the chairman of the board,
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in front of him the vice president and the directors,
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in the front row the section heads
and the personnel manager.
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The guy I filmedwho was smashing up
the hierarchy with an enviable energy
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confided in me that for him the game was not at all allegorical,
that he was thinking very precisely of his superiors.
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No doubt that's why the puppet representing the personnel manager
has been clubbed so often and so hard that it's out of commission,
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and why it had to be replaced again by a baby seal.
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Hayao Yamaneko invents video games with his machine.
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To please me he puts in my best beloved animals:
the cat and the owl.