Somehow, in the midst of their horrid history, the best among
the _gaijin_ learned a wonderful lesson. They learned to
distrust themselves, to doubt even what they were taught to
believe or what their egos make them yearn to see. To know
that even truth must be scrutinized, it was a great discovery,
almost as great as the treasure we of the East have to offer
them in return, the gift of harmony.
-- David Brin - Dr. Pak's Preschool
most of us learned about love the hard way. Even warnings are probably
usele for somehow, despite the severest warnings of parents and friends,
hundreds, thousands of women have forgotten themselves at the last minute
and succumbed to the lies, promises, flatteries, or mere attentions of
lusting, lovely men, landing themselves in complicated predicaments from
which some of them never recovered during their entire lives....
