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| 18/02/1993 |
| THE SNOW-SLEIGH AT KOBE |
THE THIRD OF THREE ESSAYS ON JAPAN, FOLLOWING A VISIT IN 1991.
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| You have probably had the same experience. You have seen a face or heard a name and not taken any particular notice of it until suddenly, you come across it so often or become so familiar with it that you wonder how you could have unaware of it for so long. Lovers and stranded travelers will recognize the sensation. |
| I had the same feeling about Kobe. It was no more than the name of a city somewhere south of Tokyo; I was not sure exactly where. I knew that it was famous for producing a specialty of beef, but then so were Scottish Angus and Argentina. Imperceptibly, though, almost without my being aware of it, it began to permeate into my consciousness until by the time I left for Japan in September 1991, I felt I knew it from a distance.[EXTRACT] |
Published in THE NATION 18 Feb. 1993, and reprinted in THE ARMLESS QUEEN (1994). |
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