One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior!
Sei ShonagonPleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.
Sei ShonagonIn life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
Sei ShonagonA man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.
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