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“What’s more, looking for Dulcinea up and down El Toboso will be like looking for little Maria in Ravenna, or the Bachelor in Salamanca.” Cervantes
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"Yesterday's sunset was a Vincent Van Goh sunset, with a certain amount of anxiety in it."
- David Markson, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

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"One should have extinguished the angel in the fountain. . ."
- Michael Lentz, 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘩

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"Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover, when I did all of that looking, or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?"
- David Markson, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

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The Calanais Stones, west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland

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Kyoto, Japan - the nondescript old man formed wings with his hands and pointed to the fluorescent glow of the butterfly, laughing, as though it did not exist

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"Beyond the window at which I am sitting the breeze is frisking with ten thousand leaves."
- David Markson, 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

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Pickle Shop, Japan - “Tamari pickles made with Nikkō miso”

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Wabi-sabi in Nikko, Japan:

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Nikkō Tōshōgū (Nikko, Japan 7/1/26)

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Ushiku Daibutsu (牛久大仏 / Ushiku Great Buddha) (Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, 7/3/26)

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文芸 (pronounced bun-gei) = literature

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Found some

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Rice, Nikko, Japan (7/1/26)

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Three Wise Monkeys of Tōshōgū Shrine: maybe restraint in perception leads to knowledge, otherwise you are just monkeying about?

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Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura (7/2/26)

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To all dog owners,
Please take your poop home with you. Nikko City (日光市)

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Nikkō Tōshōgū (Nikko, Japan 7/1/26)

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Loyalty

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Nikko, Japan (7/1/26)

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Nikko, Japan (7/1/26)