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Original Test: http://webclub.kcom.ne.jp/mb/n-jcaa/konsakka14.html Translation by Shih Tzu: http://www.flammie.net/vse/trans/kannoessay.txt A great dilemma for me is that, to the most average person in society, to produce one song no one knows for Ootsuki Miyako, who everyone knows, has so much more meaning than to write the most beautiful theme for a little movie.  This in spite of the fact that they're exactly the same act of writing music!  I do owe Ms. Ootsuki Miyako an apology for using her as an example, but...  For movies no one knows, for anime and games that get oppressed by people in our society, for commercials that are

(An excerpt from an 1889 essay by progressivist Jane Addams) "We have in America a fast-growing number of cultivated young people who have no recognized outlet for their active faculties.  They bear constantly of the great social maladjustment, but no way is provided for them to change it, and their uselessness bangs about them heavily. . . . These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel and economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.  They have pet phrases, and they tell you that the things that make us all alike are stronger than the things that make us different.  They say that all men are unite

I saw a man on TV that said he made a diamond skull.  I had finished coating a prop, paper fish-bone with wet flour (paper mache stuff; a miniature for my next short; faked ancient and several hundred feet long in just over 2) and I stayed up programming (as I often do; physics work, games).  The TV ran on with occasional attention but to break the noisy air and clocks.  I saw Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre, the end of prohibition in America (prohibition of alchohol; birth of organized crime to feed the need; violence for moonshine), but I've heard it all before.  Public Broadcasted Damien Hirst sold a diamond skull for $100 milli