The small restaurant was bustling with people, and the walls had been turned black and yellow by oil smoke. Stir-fried smoked bamboo shoots with bacon, braised cabbage with five flowers, and chowder with recipes from all directions, the atmosphere was lively. As he was changing glasses, Tsukishima didn't know that many years later his doctoral thesis would be reprinted, and in the appended postscript, there would be this sentence:
When I was young, I often thought of myself as a bystander, but in fact I was in the midst of it and there was no way to avoid it. No one can hold the wind and waves in his hands. Just describing it requires a vision that is beyond the ordinary and the courage to enter into it. What I need to thank here are my teachers, my brother, my friends, and my lover. In the summer of 1993, you, or you, have demonstrated to me the way forward and the way out.
Purpose: Graduate student during the day, and at night