By Reading Huckleberry Finn I Felt I

The Ideal Teacher Student Relationship Exists When The Student Is Better Than The Teacher.

Fundamentally A Good Author Has His Or Her Own Sense Of Style. There Is A Natural, Deep Voice, And That Voice Is Present From The First Draft Of A Manuscript. When He Or She Elaborates On The Initial Manuscript, It Continues To Strengthen And Simplify That Natural, Deep Voice.

The Destination Of The Soul: This Is What I, Led On By Nils Holgersson, Came To Seek In The Literature Of Western Europe. I Fervently Hope That My Pursuit, As A Japanese, Of Literature And Culture Will, In Some Small Measure, Repay Western Europe For The Light It Has Shed Upon The Human Condition.

The Dead Can Survive As Part Of The Lives Of Those That Still Live.

The Way Japan Had Tried To Build Up A Modern State Modelled On The West Was Cataclysmic.