After I Got Married, The

By Reading Huckleberry Finn I Felt I Was Able To Justify My Act Of Going Into The Mountain Forest At Night And Sleeping Among The Trees With A Sense Of Security Which I Could Never Find Indoors.

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

There Could Be Joy In Destruction, Too, Couldn't There? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming Supposed To Occur Only After A Lot Of Unmitigated Destruction? But Again, Human History Is Fraught With Tragedies In Which Man Spared No Effort To Destroy With Millenarian Joy, Only To Learn That No Messiah Appeared Afterwards.

I Have Survived By Representing These Sufferings Of Mine In The Form Of The Novel.

After I Got Married, The First Child Born To Us Was Mentally Handicapped.