Somewhere I read (didn’t I?) that Tokyoites become near-sighted just because they have little or no opportunity to look into the distance. I believe this. Any chance I have to look far ahead gives me a rare and luxurious feeling.
We go blind from lack of practice seeing.
We could look up, I suppose, into the Tokyo haze, but then of course we’d bump into things.
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A student (in her twenties) once told me she'd never in her life seen the horizon. Most of the other students agreed. "Yes, never," they chorussed, nodding in unison.
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