Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.”
“Why,” said the saint, “did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved mankind far too well? Now I love God! Mankind I do not love; mankind is a thing too imperfect for me. Love of mankind would be fatal to me.”
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But when Zarathustra was [...]

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Ironically, I don’t really like Japanese food that much. I know, I know. I’ve been to a couple of Japanese restaurants, had some sushi, some sashimi, some tofu… it’s all kind of bland, and usually served cold. Some of the noodle dishes are tasty, though.
I think I was expecting more Chinese-y food, e.g. sweet and [...]

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Having problems uploading pics so can’t do a proper entry — oh wait, I ran out of disk space on the server.
That’s better.
So today I went to Hakone. The reasons for going are twofold, and equally nerdy.
1) There is an old PC game called Microsoft Train Simulator. You drive trains. One of them is the [...]

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Went to London with Jade. Caught train at 9:30am, which naturally left us in London at 11:30am. Decided to go to the Tate Modern.

Ate at a branch of the ubiquitous EAT. Saw a helicopter with a giant flying advert, which you don’t see every day:

Anyway, the Tate was rather dull so when the fire alarm [...]

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Went to Shiki today, the Japanese restaurant in Norwich. Had some lovely miso soup and sushi… including octopus nigiri. I’ve never had octopus before. It had suckers. I sort of chewed it down, a battle to swallow it before I retched. But I did it: I ate octopus. Nothing stands in my way now!

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