Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineering student at Berkeley, Bob made Tau Beta Pi (the engineers' version of Phi Beta Kappa), a feat which he has attributed more to his photographic memory than to any scholarly gifts. He was also a Big Man on Campus: a star two-miler, class president, Y.M.C.A. president, manager of the "Big C Sirkus" carnival, R.O.T.C. regimental captain, drum major of the band...
...kappa thought No. 23's horror at eating kappa meat pure sentimentality, since everyone knew that in Japan girls from poor families were regularly sold to brothels...
...Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...
Death Came Early. One day, No. 23 left the kappa and returned to Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...
Author Akutagawa, at 35, found it impossible to take Mag's advice. Shortly after Kappa was published, he killed himself...