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Observation: The fascination of watching a trainwreck of a social situation is apparently a universal appeal. Anna Karenina is reminding me of similar stories in both British and Japanese literature. It also seems universal that most of the time we want it to work out ok....not sure yet about the russians.
Tsundoku is a Japanese word that means to buy more books than anyone could possibly read. As a lifestyle it speaks to me as a pursuit of knowledge as a way of living.
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