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the only plan that offers a future for intelligence.
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For the moment, the inseparable philosophy of our time
is contained in the Pac-Man.
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I didn't know when I was sacrificing all my hundred yen coins to him
that he was going to conquer the world.
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Perhaps because he is the most perfect graphic metaphor of man's fate.
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He puts into true perspective the balance of power
between the individual and the environment.
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And he tells us soberly that though
there may be honor in carrying out the greatest number of victorious attacks,
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it always comes a cropper.
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He was pleased that the same chrysanthemums appeared
in funerals for men and for animals.
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He described to me the ceremony held at the zoo in Ueno
in memory of animals that had died during the year.
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For two years in a row this day of mourning
has had a pall cast over it by the death of a panda,
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more irreparable—according to the newspapers—
than the death of the prime minister that took place at the same time.
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Last year people really cried.
Now they seem to be getting used to it,
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accepting that each year death takes a panda
as dragons do young girls in fairy tales.
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I've heard this sentence:
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"The partition that separates life from death
does not appear so thick to us as it does to a Westerner."
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What I have read most often in the eyes of people about to die
is surprise.