The fact that there was a lot of anger and sorrow and a sense of connection to destructive feelings in The Father doesn't bother me.
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
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Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.
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These are the true religious,
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priest instead of the God.
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