(Supertitles: The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (circa 1725) describe a realistic fashion a young merchant of soy sauce who commits suicide with the prostitute he loves. Chikamatsu sought in his domestic plays to depict on the stage the tragedies which occur in ordinary life rather than the mystical struggles of the gods.)


Time: 1925

Martin Heidegger:Why is love rich beyond all possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seize in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.

Hannah Arendt: Do not forget me, and do not forget how much and how deeply I know that our love has become the blessing of my life.

(Dejection would be more vivedly suggested if each in turn stood by a drooping willow when they spoke.)

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