Dear Genius Robin!
Tenjin 920810/0106
Typhoon NO.10 has swept through my island, leaving a rekatively cool environment for us writers.
In this connection, I feel myself entitled to
coolly recommend you a welcome reading of a very fine book (especially from the standpoint of general semantics) written by Ian Stevenson. This suggestion of mine is very important if my propensity as an educator or rather awakener (if man is supposed to like wakefulness more than the feline being) is allowed to act for your benefit.
In brief, you are advised to read any book by the above old man (8 years my senior) who was born in Montreal in 1918=Taisho 7 nen.
Only a few books by Ian have been translated into
Japanese yet, but ZENSEI WO KIOKU SURU KODOMO-TACHI (Children Who Remember Previous Lives) translated by Kasahara Toshio would leastbe a good target for your enjoyable correction or criticism. Boththe author and the translator are of high caliber in this rare case.
The good translation was published by Nihon-Kyobun-Sha two years ago. So you won't find it necessary to visit Kanda for getting or seeing a copy thereof.
You once declared to me that you are NOT interested in occult or supernatural affairs, and yet you must be concerned withyour Life-Death duality or dualism, even when it is related with your beloved cat or its victims: birds.
Please think anew all these things after you read any ofIan Stevenson's scientific books. He is now a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Virginia. He is one of the most excellent men of wisdom, who, in addition, knows how to write good English. His address is as follows:
Dr. Ian Stevenson
Division of Personality Studies
Box 152, Medical Center,
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
22908 U.S.A.
Probably the best way for you to do is take a casual
stroll in Yukata in the Kinikuniya-Shoten, Shinjuku to have a lookat the translator's Atogaki for his Japanese version of CHILDREN WHO REMEMBER PREVIOUS LIVES. His Japanese is concise and exact enough to please please you.
Genius as you are, you ought to know a shadow of some ofyour previous lives.
Thank you for having read my queer English!
Sincerely yours,
ご存じの
LYN SUN
８７９−６９大分県大野郡清川村天神 リンサン
- S.
The madman who had long been insistent on having us kill all the kittens kept both outside and inside our house, simply due to the fact that they usually soil the roof of his cherished automobile, was recently shut up owing to my deliberate drunkenness, which forced my neighbors to call the "patokaa", out of which did emerge an elderly cop who happened to love cats.
Medetasi-medetasi!
英語で書き出すと、私の脳の皺の回転具合までが変化して、面妖な気分になります。日本語で物を考えることがあまり長く続くと、その脳部分が疲労しますので、私は英語で心の散歩をして、頭脳工学的に有効にあたまを働かせているのであります。
生まれたり死んだりで、いつも１０匹を少しは越えているわが家の猫どもは、私からはいたぶられますが（どこの方言かな、それとも古語？）、一妻六児からは舐めるように可愛がられています。その代わり、蚤やらダニやらがゾロゾロ。
私は小猫を高い木の枝にのせて、飛び降りる早教育をする癖があるので、子たち（人間のほうの）のヒンシュクを買います。
猫ならば犬を嫌うが犬よりは猫を嫌うは我の犬さが
（さが≠ｓａｇａｃｉｔｙ）
