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Printer error, p. 406-407

Printer error, p. 406-407

Translation of: Torikaebaya monogatari. This late Heian period novel relates the story of a sister and a brother who are cross-gendered. The sister passes as a man and serves at the Imperial court as “Chūnagon (Middle Counselor)” and even…

Women for Racial and Economic Equality was founded in 1975. The organization worked to promote the end of race and sex discrimination in hiring, pay, and promotion practices, as well as quality integrated public education and federally funded…

Lily Yeats' bookplate in the volume, and an opening to a passage in which the titular character Jacob briefly contemplates Irish Home Rule (page 226, top paragraph).

This is the Liberty Bridge in Budapest in the early evening. I had heard of The Blue Danube, and I had thought the Danube was blue. But when I personally saw it, I found out that most of the time it is green or gray. But sometimes it is blue, like in…

This was a street in Madrid at noon. The street looked lonely. The city looked lonely. It was so hot outside that people either stayed at home or went to other cooler places. A person with a bright red bag gave the whole picture a bit of a different…

While wandering around Germany one early summer morning, I came across this particularly interesting fountain statue. Even more amazing, I was surprised to find a rainbow. I tried to involve the interesting 3 vivid figures as well as the rainbow in…

Under the dim streetlights, pedestrians on the road and travelers on the tram are on their way home. Home is warm, and so are the hues of the streetlights. Christmas is coming, the time of reunion is here.