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Writing is Thinking

A commonplace book: observations, fragments, reading notes, sketches, and tensions kept precisely because they remain unresolved.

  • READING NOTE

    August 21, 2026

    Who is Responsible for Dignity?

    I am reading Shōgun right now, and I am impressed by many things. The one that gets me more than any other is the incredible dignity of the Japanese people in feudal Japan, a dignity that, in many ways, still permeates J…