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46 Relief from progress and striving is a thrilling intoxicant; whether one chooses whiskey or mere illusion, the result is the same. Whenever I think back to my days in Japan I always feel a contrast between the vulgarities of the saké-drinking, idle Japanese, and the loveliness of these happy toilers there in the dark vaults of Nada.

