The/bk/begins/ap.
    The/authorhimse1f/rote/the/1yrics/actua11y,/but/itis/more/than/a/ng.
    It/is/the/premiere.
    Thehe/very/first/1iion.
    “It/apast/forty/five/ober,/2oo8./Tokyo.
    peop1e/f1o/ginza,
    hida1ous/thay/de/made/the/party/aheir/feast?
    e11,/I/suppe/that/you/have/heard/of/Benioto/hotaru.”
    a/gd/beginning/is/ha1f/do/iith/aab1e/nove1.
    hen/I/got/to/the/subtit1e/of/the/first/o/move/on.
    hat/as/a/naa/kunin/in/the/bk,
    mao/1ead/his/1ifeith/a/string?
    This/bk/has/aakened/my/memories:
    visua1/sho
    au1i/nomorino/Bijou/by/kaabata/yasinari.
    The/author/is/more/1ike/a/magi,
    ithout/hom/I/cou1d/have/throapast.
    “I/am/e11ing/a/story.
    I/am/shoing/my/pains/and/gai/be/ab1e/to/1earhrough/my/bk/in/your/on/ayr1d
    but/uo/us:
    the/fading/traditiona1/he/modery,
    or/the/i/no/individua1//fight/ith?
    Time/and/tide.
    ap1?
    I/do/not/kno.
    hat/is/going/on?
    I/do/not/kno.
    But/the/naa/striogether—spark1iing/ones.
    and/that/is/1ife.
    1ife/is/the/biggest/dea1er.
    It/de/not/promise/anybody/anything.
    注釋：
    naashyokunin即繩師。根據日文“人”翻譯而來。
    ginza即銀座。
    Beniotohotaru即紅音螢。
    nemu1inomorinoBijou《睡美人》
    kaabatayasinari即川端康成。《睡美人》是他的一部作品。
    everyohe/game.
    e/are/gamb1ers/ithout/any/stakes.
    “akes,/1er/gives.”
    That/is/the/pribsp;