Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Society II

So, let me quickly translate a few lines from my favorite personne de lettres, Shin'ichiro Nakamura:

Realism in literature is only interested in re-enacting the "real world" of society. Yet the crucial fact is that we do not live only inside this "real world." In actuality, impossible dreams and invisible thoughts that slumber in the greatest depths of our consciousness also support us, move, and motivate us.

---Ocho Monogatari, Ch. 1, Sec. 3

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