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Originally Posted by hyperborealis
Sol, let me come back to this when I next have time. I'm too tired to think straight at this point. But I want to take the idea of mono no aware that you raise in reference to the 33rd of the hyakunin isshu and bring it back to these earlier poems. The truth is that high school is a short period in one's life, significant, but in retrospect, also transitional. And nothing more so than one's first loves. Plus I definitely want to think through your comments on the 33rd poem.
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Haha. I will be gladly looking forward to it. Mono-no-aware is the core construction behind Makoto Shinkai's
5cm per second, which I know you also enjoyed very much.