Властитель слабый и лукавый, Плешивый щеголь, враг труда, Нечаянно пригретый славой, Над нами царствовал тогда. A weakly goon, a cunning liar, A balding fake, a foe of toil, Whom fame by chance has boosted higher Ruled over us then, seeking spoil. —Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Chapter X, verse 1; translation mine) My first night in Tokyo, many years ago, was the first time I had the experience of an earthquake.
I was staying in a tiny room in the guesthouse of the research institute I was visiting. The brief tremor in the middle of the night was barely strong enough to wake me up.
I reached for the emergency flashlight, of the kind that is found in all hotel rooms in Japan, but it was not needed. That weekend, I went with one of my
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