Well, embrace that ennui, 'cause nothing is permanent.
"There is definitely an Irish strain of gloominess...but I still think the Japanese win the beauty prize for melancholy...There are always those who prefer not to look beyond a geisha's smile, after all." (64)
"In Japanese, 'floating' (uki) is also a homonym of 'melancholy." (63)
"a tradition exists in which gloom has its place" (64).
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