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Natsume soseki goodreads5/13/2023 Sanshiro is a young man of peasant country stock who has done well enough with his studies that he is allowed to go to Tokyo to the university. Japan is struggling with the modernization/westernization of Japan at the turn of the last century. Riding the streetcar is not the only way to get satisfaction, of course, but it's the first step, and the easiest.” Take it outside and get the wind into it. Your head is alive, but if you seal it up inside dead classes, you're lost. After a while it will just happen by itself- you will become satisfied. "Get on the streetcar and ride around Tokyo ten or fifteen times. Sanshiro tried to find Yojiro's hidden meaning, without success. "You idiot! Do you think it would 'satisfy' you to eat what they serve at your rooming house ten times a day?" “When he heard that Sanshiro was going to school forty hours a week, his eyes popped.
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