Touch And Go Letters From The Real Japan

Author : Harman Black
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484626910
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Touch-and-Go Letters From the Real Japan written by Harman Black and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Touch-and-Go Letters From the Real Japan: Being Volume One of Touch-and-Go Letters From 'Round the World It seems very hard to realize that my dream of going to the Orient is about to come true. I have been thinking all day about the general belief that the East is the land of flowers and romance. I am sure that there are prettier flowers in the gardens of Europe than I shall ever see in Japan and China, and surely the history of Europe is replete with everything romantic, so I have concluded that the lure of the East is not in its romanticism but its mystery, its differentness, and its unaccountability from our Western standpoint. It seems very queer to go West in order to reach the East; but even in San Francisco, you get a little of the atmosphere of the Orient in its China town and the universal employment of Chinese laborers and servants here. The good Pacific Mail ship Siberia is big enough to be comfortable, and the fare is almost as good as the Mauretania. There are about 140 on board, and a very agreeable list. Army officers, and engineers, the inevitable English and Scotch tourist, and the lady from Rochester, New York, who loves to pronounce her morning ablution baaath. I was put at the Captain's table, as I had a letter to him. The table, is full of pink roses, and in the centre is a quaint little Japanese pine tree that looks like part of the decoration of a doll's house and grounds. A Chinese steward stands behind every plate, noiseless and competent, but wholly impervious to the English language. They waste no words, such as Sir or very well, but follow the scriptural injunction as to yea, yea, and nay, nay. They dress in pajama-looking suits, very thinfor this season of the Spring, and when you look around you always imagine a woman is standing there. Tonight at dinner, they have changed from the blue ratine effects to pure white, and they look and move around like a lot of Oriental ghosts. It seems impossible for them to use an r. If they tried to say rats it would come out lats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.