By Marc Horne

It is the flip of the millennium and a tender westerner arrives in Tokyo to affix a cult and produce at the finish of the realm. yet whose international? stopover at the Tokyo that lies underneath the surface:?the urban of petty gangsters, slumming millionaires, drunkards, fans and peculiar messiahs.

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On the train home (it was dark and late) a salaryman kept long eye contact with me his head bobbing like, but not in time with, the train. He had a dirty look on his face, which was a face where thick wrinkles are the skeleton and the rest is meat and his hair looked sharp like sea shells round the edges. I don't know what his look said to me, but it was something like "We aren't so different after all! " I felt just drunk, not too bad existentially. It was my day off, after all. So, I was back on that elevated platform and with a thousand people I went down a seventy foot wide staircase very slowly and a lot like a waterfall or something one might watch for pleasure.

The long blue tiles of his roof were a little wet and caught what light they could to work their charm. Paper doors held light for a second before releasing it, softened. Slow shakuhachi flute music came with the light, at the same speed. It sounded live, not recorded. Junko seemed dissatisfied with the fit of her leather gloves and adjusted them constantly. Moments of peace between the stretching were undoubtedly metaphysical : they came quickly and took over completely. Finally Yosuke. He was looking at the small club in his hand, seemingly imagining a bursting head at the end of it and the approval that might gain for him.

He also said that he was confident that we would see death camps in Europe within twenty years, and when that happened he would do what he had to do. They said that The Internet might go commercial if computer pricing followed its current trend and if there was something interesting up there for people. They made a commitment to invest a great deal of money into researching a piece of software that would allow one to view pornography across the Internet, and decided one should phase it in as a scientific tool with other purposes so people were not ashamed to acquire this software.

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