Lire plusPresque tout ce qui entoure les Japonais est extrêmement artificiel, ouvragé, mais l’effet ultime consiste à le faire apparaître naturel et libre. Comme en art, le résultat obtenu est, de fait, le seul possible.
Lire plusDans le championnat de baseball des lycées, le héros est le lanceur de l’équipe perdante.
Lire plusCe que nous envisageons intuitivement de notre point de vue, ils le considèrent tout aussi intuitivement du leur, de manière diamétralement opposée.
Lire plusI am the only American in this bar.
Everybody else is Japanese.
(reasonable / Tokyo)
I speak English.
They speak Japanese.
(of course)
They try to speak English. It’s hard.
I can’t speak Japanese. I can’t help.
We talk for a while, trying.
Then they switch totally to Japanese
for ten minutes.
They laugh. They are serious.
They pause between words.
I am alone again. I’ve been there before
in Japan, America, everywhere when you
don’t understand what somebody is
talking about.
Lire plusI’m depressed,
haunted by melancholy
that does not have a reflection
nor cast a shadow.
12,000,000 people live here in Tokyo.
I know I’m not alone.
Others must feel the way
I do.
Lire plusWhen dreams wake
life ends.
Then dreams are gone.
Life is gone.