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in the midst of the long moving shadows
that the January light throws over the ground of Tokyo:
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the shadow of the Asakusa bonze.
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For also in Japan the year of the dog is beginning.
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Temples are filled with visitors who come
to toss down their coins and to prayJapanese style
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a prayer
which slips into life without interrupting it.
:35:38
Brooding at the end of the world on my island of Sal
in the company of my prancing dogs
:35:42
I remember that month of January in Tokyo, or rather
I remember the images I filmed of the month of January in Tokyo.
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They have substituted themselves for my memory.
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They are my memory.
:35:53
I wonder how people remember things
who don't film, don't photograph, don't tape.
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How has mankind managed to remember?