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There's a certain sense of dislocation in seeing the Japanese names I learned before I could read Japanese written in kanji. There's a bunch in the afterword to Akizuki's novel, a list of Taishou-born and -active literary figures, that made me blink rapidly. When sounds become symbols one's whole sense of the man changes.
( Divine decadence: Mr. Mustard-river Dragon's Intervention )