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Excerpt from 'The Pillow Book'

Hateful Things --> --> Philosophy Lovers! Click Here Hateful Things [The following is an excerpt from The Pillow Book , a Japanese classic. A pillow book is a sort of diary filled with the day’s observations. Few survived. This one was written by Sei Shonagon (c966–1017), a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Sadako during the last decade of the tenth century. To say that Sei Shonagon was an aesthete and more than a trifle fastidious would be putting it mildly.] One is in a hurry to leave, but one’s visitor keeps chattering away. If it is someone of no importance, one can get rid

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