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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: revenge. But satires upon the clown-like character of our climate,
which, after the lamest sort of a spring, somehow manages a capital
fall, would in the Far East be as out of keeping with fancy as with
fact. To a Japanese, who never personifies anything, such innocent
irony is unmeaning. Besides, it would be also untrue. For his May
carries no suggestion of unfulfilment in its name.
Those Far Eastern paintings which have to do with man fall for the
most part under one of two heads, the facetious and the historical.
The latter implies no particularly intimate concern for man in
himself, for the past has very little personality for the present.
As for the former, its attention is, if anything, derogatory to him,
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