- rinko kawauchi // rolleiflex 3.5f with fujifilm pro 400 or kodak portra 160 nc // xenotar or planar
- hideaki hamada // pentax 67 ii with kodal portra 160 nc or 400 nc
- daido moriyama // gr21 with kodak tri-x
- "it may therefore be said that cold literature entails fleeing in order to survive; it is literature that refuses to be strangled by society in its quest for spiritual salvation. I also believe that if a race cannot accommodate this non-utilitarian sort of literature it is not merely a misfortune for the writer but also an indication of the utter spiritual impoverishment of that race" (p. 81 The Case for Literature).
- "literary creation is basically a solitary form of work in which no movement or collective can assist; they can only strange it. It is only by resolving not to become attached to a political group or movement that the writer is able to win complete freedom" (p. 80 The Case for Literature).
- "To an even greater extent, loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect and reflection can only begin when one is alone" (p. 165)
- "Kafka's self is a more accurate depiction of modern man. After him, a brilliant analysis of the self is to be found in by the some hundred thousand lines of posthumously published poetry by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa" (75).
- "the boy who wrote poetry" - mishima yukio
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