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...character.His attitude can be embarrassingly reductive,as when Haruko describes theEmperor’s reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could not contain itself.”If all of Haruko’s problems, triumphs,and struggles can be so easilyreduced to capricious feminine nature,then why tell her story in the first place?What?...
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