lecturi/ citat(e) – 14

how to hold someone in your heart – mizuki tsujimura

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‘Anyone who thinks about requesting a historical figure has either not thought it through, or they think it’s all fun and games. Nobody in their right mind actually wishes for something like this. I, however, am different.’

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‘Say they do meet with a historical figure,’ Samekawa continued. ‘Chances are, they’ll end up regretting it. First of all, these historical figures communicate in a different language from what we now use. It will be like speaking to someone from another country.’

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Ayumi vaguely remembered learning in a classical literature course about the waka technique of honkatari, in which a poet borrows a verse or two from a famous poem to give their own verse depth and background.

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‘Weren’t you … disappointed?’ The old man had been so eager to meet his hero. Surprisingly, he nodded. ‘Of course I was. Learning there was so little meaning behind his big decision. He wasn’t a hero after all, nor was he a poet. But isn’t that what history is all about? History is whatever people wish and choose to believe happened. To know that I am the only living human who knows the truth about Gakuman, however? Now that fills me with a different kind of emotion.’

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mi-a placut ideea de a intalni o figura istorica. eu oare pe cine as alege? boris vian? milorad pavic? marin sorescu?
ce l-as intreba? cum l-as convinge sa isi ofere singura sansa de a intalni pe cineva, mie? l-ar convinge?…