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THE NEW CANADIAN
Independent Japanese-English Organ GEORGE MSHIMURA^- _ _ ___....,. ,..,..._ TAKAICHI UMEZUKI ^.^__ __ L Japanese Seetien Editor KEN MORI ____ ___
Editor
Bj CINDERELLA
Letter to a Lost Love ...
Montrenl. March 24,-l'WI,
.Yest.er<la.y' yoij...k"nocked at 'ji'iy door. -I didn't answer. You tapjie'-l .staccato on my wiiulo\v. pane. I protended not to hear you. I ...couldn't' bear to look . iiitc> your eyes-and ' pretend that things'-were 'still the same,..'.;.."- : . ; ' �
You whistled like you always vised' to do.�once, twice, thrice. You stood out there in a ..snowfall, .shivering a little, but not doubting', that I would.come out to meet you. ,You stoocl out there as I've always known you �� idealistic; intense, provocative, daring a'nd forever'.'yo'ung. Your .yellow .hair" blew.- .in the March, snowstorm, entwined with crocuses,�''��snowdrops and smoky blue flowers, the 'name of which I've long forgotten, but which used to run Hko. purple. flame in a: field F remembeV . . . a long time ago. Your sliy li])s were half parted in an invitation, and I-didn't even have to look-to know there was. fresh mischief being- planned under your lonr; eyelashes. . . � .' ' : �!�'"'�
Dear Spring, you will never change. You are impulse and youth and .dreams,. I have changed. I have learned thai living is not only impulse and youth and dreams. It is also adjustment, compromise and reason. A neat and. ordered life, a safe existence.tJiis slov;f learning to shield oneself'-from ecstasy lesl one discover pain, Mould eventually come between us and our love. :
..Yoil see, for nie the doors to wonderland have swun^ shul. I Can never open 'them again.with the sunie j.oyousness, the s-anve eagerness, the', same sure wide-.eycd belief. While you were away the last nine months, 1 have had to live in a new world: l,t's an -..adult world you'll never know. And because you will never know it, you will havo ecstasy always. If I believed that you would be happy my way, I would not be writing this letter. .But '�without ecstasy you would Hot be Spring. : .
��; I wonder- if you will really understahd Vr-hen I 'say thai Iiavhiij grown a little older, a litlle wis>er, I am "-'now. an alien in your world � the world I once loved so inlensel.v. I cannot stand and stare for half a glorioHs spring pfternooit, H alchinii a robin make its nest or following two rival armies o;f anls capture an insect- cita'rlo! and believe niy time well spent, . ".'��_
. I, who used to stand, with you, hand in hand, on.a river's edii-\ watching for wood, sprites, I who used to stand enraptured'.whi^p tail trees sang a mystic forest .symphony. I .who. could bo moved 'close to tears with a strange knowledge of a frie.ndly universal spirit havering close�that tne has been : replaced by.; .anotiu^r-foreyer.-prodded- by an insistant. nKit.ter-of-fact spirit which .whispers, "It's" later: than .you 'think'";--.Fairies, wood sprites a'nd. t':;-nvusic of the. spheres havo r.ow_ In'Vn ropl.-rccd by -more imiv.odiat-^ and'more pressing things^ Like the^fillii'is" out .of income tax -return'. forms, the-planning .of ~n nveiui for a cov-ktai! party 'next Saturday, and serious plans for 'getting-'on. i;i t?u- job whiflv keeps'jne sl;c^�es^-. ful in an adult-.world. - �''. -
I^� yen remember-.our s.r;dden. spi'm't-a^r-nrs' rv^juMi.-e to ou'u-k-. ening tw,;i:s, the.swelling buds., .-arid "the bursting forth -�'f "every living thing one mad day-in March?'! can no'lon.cer.drop'.o\vryr]ving to. go running bafefo'ot tliroug-h" cool, .liaiiiji moss,. scurrying '-.'through. woodland paths1 !.>oking for i]:e. fir's! violet, the .first Kasior lilv.' or jro'jpaddHnir ir a"-~stroun'. iu>t 'f�>r ihe'-->uko of . paddli ''.'g. \\\ ��;-. 'j mountain stre:m. R;-?^e:v!v ;- t--\ iKat <iav' w,
Letter to Editor
Very'Valuable
Dear Mr. Nishimura:
� .1 have greatly appreciated .the kindness-of uThe \e\v Canadian"
In sending the paper to. the at my. ho'w'i'v now that I am' no iongt'j- attaeh-d' to .the staff of any periodical. (J am, .as you probably know, writing a weekly (j"Hi:i:':- ::: The. Financial1 -Post.)
1 l.i'.H F write today., to' expres^ 'rn.y par'tii-u!ar: satisfaction with t h e a i i; c-1 o, ' � T h.e N i gh t 't he, 11 o ys Sat. JV'V.-h.'-' in the issue., of todays-(Mar.. IT) date. It is very "va!i;'a;>le that recollect ions . such �as th'v" sh.iu-d be printed, while .-they�;<�'�.� >til! vivid. 1 wish -they could I'h^iin .'a wider readership �;mioiig non-Japanese Canadians, and T wonder.: if the author, would attempt io place-' an. article of much'the same kind in a national F11 gl i sh - la n gu a ge m aga z i ne ;a t a n appropriate .time -�' which inighi ;i>e shortly before the fifteenth anniversary of "Pearl Harbor1'. in December 1957. � �'' "��'
(Iratefiilly youVs,
TJ. K. !^aiid�'elL
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' Well, how a'bo.ui it, K. S.?
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watch the iriraclf of birth and. saw afiirry. wet foal .stagger V-;?.' j its own' fo'iir :oi:s-.foivthe. first time? The-rr.l.racle .of birth i:;ci:id- ": moths e'meigi'ig'f-r.':?- th<Mr ohrysialisos. a^^k^x w,-;teh�:d it a".-^v � boun-ij.-. Xo\v. 1 a::: c-'iverruv.'-with the -other.side- of the miracV --I u?ii too b-.;sy. hang''^ out rriy clothes IvcaurV of a r?v.->ihv :v.ir;U'"-\ So. brloved, ihU i* goodbye. I shall never know sheer ecsta>> again. I shatt. no doubt, meet love again, but it will bo different to that fir>t wild rapture that was ours, horn of April moon- � > ! that Midden moment when our two hearts beat a* one. t shall, no '. doubt, maKr promises to love again, hut they -*�ill not V as �.!- � fny promise i�> >ou �: part discovery, part dedication, p.irt pain, part Bonder, purt delisM. My promi-vs to. love will m.?kr re>tr-* for all thine*.
^ .OPEN-LETTER ' :
To Madiurte Sada: -."�'�...'.�"
� .. .in your attack .."-against Mr. YFT: in:. the ;March.. 10 issue- 6 .The Xew- Canadian, you sortec out his (iiiotatio.n of Karl Marx '> statejr.en.t ".Religion fs the opia'fi. of .ti;e mass.c's." as a target- .fr.t your" bhfnt. dagger. Th'on yoi stated, or rather remarked. -:"Re-niii!'us..jr..eV of 'the -.inebriate �" \vlir said tho. upright p(>st \vas. dnnik bo'caiise he s;iw 'it :sway .from s ��{]<> to >!de.r> . What a _?inrMe! What hc-arir.o: has- "the �� latter .on tii.; fornjor? Xoiu'-. F wish to :;s'. that you- g'-ivii. substantial' arguments. against -tliis ' sia-.-emen* rather thaii iionsensical "n'>t;',ir,gs. �This st'ulerheiit ;tliat "Religie-jV i-the oi�i;i>( .^f the '-i^asses/' is no!
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| PREAMBLE: A brief characterization of oar /,!/tV j seems to be in order. Jiro is the fiscerotonic crifomor^.-He's popular because he's a sycbophant, Taro //'/&�-;, mesomorpsbtc extrovert. He's seldom right, but he's J-. : is the ctrebrotonicectonwrpbjc introvert. He's uo>h-�, introspective; respected because he gives the air ilui ;':t
CHAIRMAN: Before we get into our discus^io?r, Has any-. any comment to make on 'TMK'js'.brutal blast?
JIRO: What did TMK write about tfiis time.? 1 n.vvrr^ the stuff, can't stand it. To me, TMK's just Too Much .Keru.
HIRO: I'd refrain from passing judgment on a pers.i.n -y,-,u j r. know, and whose articles you admit you don't read, Y i o.in W us all into trouble, even our writer. Besides, TMK did');-.:. wrh her ideas were expressed via S(o)'S. t-'have .nothing a^.iujt th-columnist. TMK's a Towards More Kulture -propagandist' and m?. be seen in that light. It's a shame that the column, is r>nd or.:; by those who find fault with it. . . .
.TARO: Why .shouldn't people find faiilt with TMK ? Her (I'-sure it's a she) inumble-jumble expresses ideas that are pa'por th':: and skin deep. She's skating on thin ice, if she stops, sho'll ?i?x TMK's Toronto's Most Kraziest and that's fihaF V
CHAIRMAN: Do you gentlemen know YET's reaction to Su-1; J sad and sour ,servings? .
TARO: Well, he said we should watch what we say/becau^' a lot of what we think is being confused with what he be'lie'vos... And he said something about going- to see. his .o\vn doctor '\vh:: he needs one � said he can't trust a diagnosis by a. charlatan.
JIRO: .Gee, do you think YET's really sick? . TARO: Could be! He may be suffering frpm schizoplij-enia. �
HIRQ: impossible! � There's three of us. It must'bo a;oa?.o:o? imiltipie personality. -
TARO: Poor boy. But maybe we cnn help him! �-. JIRO: How pray? - .>;'.. .
. TARO: Well, Spring's just around the 'corner, i�ul ymi-kiT'iv. \yh'at a young man's fancy is supposed to turn to. Maybe that'.V tlie root of his dilemma. His triple personality yearns for.'three,v'....
JIRO: How interesting! Isn't he satisfied with one-?'-Po!y.iryriy is against the law. you know; ; v : . -
HIRO: But..don't you .see? Each. of.luVtri^pronged personaliti*'?
is a different and distinct entity. Remember, he called u? p^lar
concept? Well, if we thell him..what. � we'.'want in our mate? he ;i!iriy
be ,able to com.e to a crystallized conception of his own d \-ir:.
Then he can take the appropriate steps and resolve hi- dlffii'iilty.
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TARO: Your taste is: disgusting.. I would like a gir .attractive, .but not seriously .affected by her beauty; intellic not in the academic sense of the worVl; sharp fiv appearance ostentatious ;and cheap; qiuet and reserved, but not exce^i And she must, be smaller than me. ; v
HIRO: You Ye swallowed the warped .- values of .thiV hook, line, and sinker. Fm surprised: you have no stmnir -\ of your own. " . . /
Tt is difficult to speak with candor on this toucliy >�;? �an idertl .gn-1. I don't really know what I want, '.p.nd .T d-.v;1-you know either. Things d^n't hat^en that way.. ifyp.�;l;"; it _n?.ay eonie a bout -as' follows/ On^ day. I'll be at a party : thing and Fl! be introduced to her; Shell smile a:ul bh^<:, ' do likewise.' and we'll both know. : - : � . :�; ; � . .
. TARO; Romantic drcam.er! Comes 'the. day �' "\vher- ,�:. smilp at you. .- ' "- . .. " ' - '
" JIRO: Yeah, but AW- Ve_''. >?:��:'. all l)o!v :Ju;r!Vs. MnyH-n pMn't there. - � : ; . -"'.-" ; '"- .. : " ' .'
nrATRMAX: I'm sony. gentlom.;.n. but -fv,"> r:!<: ": frnjn YKT; He; ?ays you're. n!! a hunch of -si^v. ':
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