: Kafka by the sea-excerpt (19)
At noon, Oshima was eating in the yard, and I was sitting in the borrowing desk instead of him.
"I have something to ask." One of the women came up and said. Tall. The hard tone is reminiscent of the bread left at the end of the cupboard.
"ah, what is it?"
She frowned and looked at my face as if staring at a tilted frame: "Hey, are you afraid of being a high school student or something?"
"ah, yes. Internship here. " I answered.
"Who can be called who is sensible?"
I'll call Oshima in the yard. He got up and walked with coffee slowly washing down the food in his mouth and patting the crumbs off his knees.
"what do you want to ask?" Oshima greeted warmly.
"To tell you the truth, from the standpoint of women, our organization conducted a field survey on the equipment, convenience of use and fairness of reception of public cultural facilities in Japan." She said, "It is planned to actually visit all kinds of facilities in one year, check the equipment, and publish the survey results in a report. Many women participate in this activity. We are responsible for this area. "
"If you don't mind, I'd like to hear the name of your organization." Oshima said.
Women hand out their business cards. Oshima looks at them carefully and puts them on the table. Then she raises her face and stares at each other with a gorgeous smile. That's the best smile, enough to make a healthy woman fly rosy clouds on her cheeks, but her eyebrows don't move.
"So, from the conclusion, unfortunately, we can find that there are some problems in this library." She said.
"that is to say, from a female perspective?" Oshima asked.
"Yes, from a female perspective." She cleared her throat. "I want to listen to the opinions of managers. What do you think?"
"There are no fantastic people like managers here. If I can, please call a spade a spade. "
"First of all, there is no ladies' bathroom here. Not bad? "
"exactly. There is no ladies' bathroom in this library, but it is used by both men and women. "
"Even if it is a private facility, since it is a public library, as a matter of principle, I am afraid that men and women should be separated from each other in the bathroom. Isn't it? "
"as a principle." Oshima confirmed to repeat each other's words.
"yes. There are all kinds of harassment in unisex toilets. According to the survey, most women really find it difficult to use unisex toilets. This is obviously a negative for women users. "
“neglect。” Oshima showed an expression of eating something wrong. He doesn't like the pronunciation of this word very much.
"intentionally ignored."
"intentionally ignored." He repeated it again, thinking about the absence of the subject of this sentence.
"how do you think about this?" Women are restrained from vaguely revealing anxiety.
"You can see at a glance that this is a very small library." Oshima said, "It is a pity that there is not enough space to build a separate bathroom for men and women. It goes without saying that it is better to separate men and women in the bathroom. But at present, users have not complained about this. It's not just luck or misfortune. Our library is not so crowded. If you want to pursue the issue of men's and women's single-use toilets, how about asking Boeing in Seattle to raise the issue of toilets for jumbo jets? Compared with our library, jumbo jets are much wider and more crowded. As far as I know, the toilets in the cabin are used by both men and women. "
The tall woman narrowed her eyes and stared at Oshima's face. As soon as she narrowed her eyes, the cheekbones on both sides suddenly came out and her glasses shot up.
"We are not investigating transportation here now. Why are you rushing to mention the oversized passenger plane? "
"The bathroom of the super-large passenger plane is for both men and women, and the bathroom of the library is for both men and women. In principle, aren't the problems caused by the two the same?"
"We are investigating the equipment of each specific public facility, not here to talk about principles."
Oshima smiled softly after all: "Really? I thought we were discussing principles. "
The tall woman realized that she seemed to have made a mistake, and her cheeks were slightly red, but that was not the result of Oshima's sexual charm. She tried to make a comeback.
"In a word, there is no problem of oversized passenger planes here. Please don't bring out irrelevant things to create confusion."
"I see, I can't press the table about the plane." Oshima said, "Let's focus on the ground."
< To be continued >
Author: Blue is like sadness, 25-11-19 13:9 Reply to this speech
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"yes, that's right. It was our predecessors who compiled the index. Somehow, men and women were listed separately. I wanted to do it again, but I never got around to it. "
"We don't want to make irresponsible remarks about this."
Oshima shook his head gently.
"It's just that in this library, all categories are male authors before female authors." She said, "according to our idea, this is a measure that violates the principle of equality between men and women and lacks fairness."
Oshima took the business card in his hand, read the words on it again and put it back on the table.
"Ms. Tseng," Oshima said, "when the school called the roll, I was in front of Tanaka and behind Guangen-have you ever complained about this? Have you asked the teacher to read it backwards once? Have you ever been annoyed that the Roman G is behind your F? Page 68 of the book follows your own page 67. Have you ever had a revolution? "
"and which one are two different things." Her voice was heavy. "You have been consciously disturbing the topic."
hearing this, the little woman who continued to take notes in front of the bookshelf came quickly.
"Disturb the topic consciously." Oshima repeats each other's words like a dot beside the word.
"can you deny it?"
“red herring。” Oshima said.
The woman surnamed Zeng opened her mouth slightly and said nothing.
"There is a saying" red herring "in English, which means that although it is full of fun, it slightly deviates from the topic of conversation. Red herring. As for how this statement came into being, I don't know how to learn. "
"herring or bamboo pod (the word" bamboo head+clip "can't be found in the input method) or fish. Anyway, you are disturbing the topic."
"to be precise, it is the replacement of analagy." Oshima said, "Aristotle thinks that eloquence is one of the most effective methods. This clever trick was deeply appreciated and widely used in the daily life of ancient Athenian citizens. Unfortunately, in Athens at that time, the definition of' citizen' did not include women ...
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" Are you being sarcastic? "
Oshima shook his head and said, "Listen carefully, I want to tell you that if you have time to sniff around the small private library in this small town and find fault with the bathroom form and borrowing cards, you might as well do something more effective to protect women's rights and interests throughout the country-such things are everywhere outside. We are doing our best to make this humble library play a regional role, collecting and providing excellent reading materials for book lovers, and providing humane services as much as possible. As you may not know, this library has been highly praised throughout the country for its collection of poetry research materials from Taisho period to middle Showa period. Of course, there are imperfections and limitations. But anyway, we are doing our best. Compared with what we can't do, it is better to focus on what we can do. Isn't this the so-called justice? "
tall women look at short women, and short women look at tall women.
At this moment, the short woman spoke-for the first time-with a high-pitched voice: "In the final analysis, what you say is nothing more than empty talk aimed at evading responsibility, and nothing more than cleverly beautifying yourself with the convenient and easy-to-use word reality. If I may say, you are a historical example of a 1% male male patient. "
"a historic example of pathetics." Oshima repeated it with admiration. You can hear that he is quite interested in this statement.
"In other words, you are a typical male subject of discrimination." Tall people can't hide their anxiety.
"male male." Oshima is still parroting.
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"I am such a person in front of you, so I am discriminated against in various occasions and in various senses." Oshima said, "What is discrimination and how much harm it brings to people-only those who are discriminated against can understand. Pain is an individual thing, and then there are individual wounds that stay in the summer. So in the pursuit of fairness and justice, I don't think I can compete with anyone. However, what makes me more tired is the kind of people who lack imagination, that is, T*S* Eliot said' empty people'. They filled the unimaginative parts with straw and the empty parts, while they walked around the ground unconsciously, trying to impose that numbness on others by listing empty words. Say it quickly, it is people like the two people who just came. "
he sighed and turned the long pencil between his fingers.
"transsexuals, homosexuals, male supremacists, feminists, fascist pigs, * * * industrialists and Kelis, it doesn't matter what it is. No matter what banner you play, it has nothing to do with me. What I can't stand is those empty guys. In the face of those people, I really can't stand it, so that what I shouldn't say blurted out. As far as the situation just now is concerned, I could have dealt with it properly and sent it away, or asked Saeki to come down and let her handle it. She must be cheerful and responsive. However, I can't do it, what I shouldn't say, what I shouldn't do, and I can't control myself. This is my weakness. Understand why this is a weakness? "
"If we take care of people with insufficient imagination one by one, no amount of health is enough. Is this the case? " I said.
"correct." Oshima said, and gently pressed the end with a pencil and rubber on his temple. "That's true. However, Tamura Kafkajun, you'd better remember one thing: in the final analysis, those guys killed Saeki's childhood sweetheart. Narrow, harsh, self-righteous propositions lacking imagination, empty terms, usurped ideals, and rigid ideological systems-for me, what is really terrible is these things. I fear and hate these things from the bottom of my heart What is right and what is wrong-this is of course a very important question. However, in many cases, this kind of individual judgment error is not uncorrectable afterwards. As long as you have the courage to admit your mistakes, you can usually make amends. However, the narrowness and harshness lacking imagination are no different from parasites, and they change the subject on which they live. Change its shape and multiply indefinitely. There is no hope of being rescued here. As me, I don't want that kind of thing to enter here. "
Oshima pointed a pencil at the bookshelf. Of course, he is the whole library. "I can't just laugh at that kind of thing."