Author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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• David Peace (1)
  • IN: Patient X (2018) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Among the palm flowers, among the bamboo, Buddha has already fallen asleep. By the roadside, a withered fig tree, Christ, too, seems to be dead. Yet we need to rest, Even before the stage set, (If we look behind that set, We find only a patched-up canvas)
    FROM: "The Collected Works of Tock", in Kappa, (1927), Poem, Japan