"One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese……" — Dave Barry

One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to… - Dave Barry

"One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals."

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is… — Hilaire Belloc

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