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If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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In introducing himself, he had said, "I'm the father," and the doctors had winced. Because something else must have echoed in their ears- I'm the monster's father.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Bird, don't sound so crushed. The fact that I had never had sex before can only have been significant for me, if it had any meaning at all-it had nothing to do with you.
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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Bird, hesitating, recalled a line from the English textbook he was reading with his students; a young American was speaking angrily: Are you kidding me? Are you looking for a fight?