That book did something that not many other things I had thus far
encountered in jife were able to do 一 ittookmeoutof myself and put
me into a larger world 一 not allthatmuch 1arger , now that 1 come to
think about 計 , but large enough to stir my imagination. Even the
details ofreading the book return to me, forty-five years 1ater .
(京都大)