worked at rosemarie's, she dreamt rob lowe to be cast as elvis in upcoming feature. joe (academic & drafting track) and i share two of three names, lightning struck sterling ralf gedraitis (guz) (academic & stenographic) at watkins glen raceway doing what he loved prompting rocco (rocky) (academic & clerical track) to renounce northern baptism, vote kennedy. in south philly weekend days, google maps pronounced passyunk passanick, we questioned if clark kent can't find phone booths anymore he must use starbucks bathroom like the rest of us, "a latte & the four digit code please"
read kokoro by natsume soseki. leading character k, exceeding naming parsimony of kafka's trial, written contemporaneously
the meiji era, which lasted from 1868 to 1912..soseki was born in tokyo in 1867..soseki wrote kokoro in 1914, two years after the death of emperor meiji, and two years before his own death
if one wished to indulge in such fashionable pastimes as playing billiards and eating ice cream, one had to walk a long way across rice fields
a far profounder reason for sensei's silence
do you know what it feels like to be tied down by long, black hair?
pretending that my diploma was a telescope, i surveyed as much of the world as i could see
when you go, please take me with you
in a place where dogs barked at the sight of a western-style suit, the arrival of a telegram was a great event
like most cowards i suffered because i could not decide
in short, my uncle cheated me of my inheritance
it was not the custom for students to wear silk in those days
i still had the odd notion that good clothes, like a mustache, came after graduation
in our little six-mat room
i decided to leave the piece of ice out in the sun, and wait until it had melted and turned into warm water. then, i thought, he would begin to see the error of his ways
but to my questions he gave replies so vague one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea
yes, you are a haunting, albeit vague, figure that refuses to leave me alone
having failed to bury myself alive among books, i tried for a while to forget myself by drowning my soul in sake
in all the world, i now have only you to turn to
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