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[soft_melodies]

Hello hello

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[aerodrome1]

It is always strange to come back to a place... To find everyone and everything different... It makes you feel...melancholy and far too aware of mortality. Mono-no-aware, the Japanese say: the transience of all things. Though sometimes it's just as disconcerting to stay in one place and feel the outside world change.

[soft_melodies]

"it's just as disconcerting to stay in one place and feel the outside world change." --> this is very true. I can never stay in one place for too long without a small break. Otherwise I break.

Mono-no-aware. Thank you for sharing that. :)

[aerodrome1]

Two Japanese novels I'll recommend: Yasunari Kawabata's "Beauty and Sadness" and "Snow Country".

There are so many places I want to see--- to see the changes in the wider world.

[soft_melodies]

thank you for the novel recommendations.
i just ordered lots of truman capote books (b/c i've only read "in cold blood" and watched "breakfast in tiffany's" which i know is different from the book).
i'm going to get the kawataba books next time. i can't wait. there's always so much to read and never enough time.

[aerodrome1]

And do tell me what you think of "Failing Paris" and "Dud Avocado"... they are both lovely.

[aerodrome1]

You are missed.