As my readers know, Le Clézio was in France as “another self of mine”…and as my readers also know, I encountered him when I was around twenty years old…In the same way, Isis appeared.
Bringing André Breton and etc., even Marc Chagall, along with her.
That is why I thought it.
Or perhaps I came to know it.
That every day, one person and then another among you would read my The Turntable of Civilization.
Needless to say, even the person in charge at the publishing company is convinced that if I had been Kimutaku or Beat Takeshi when I published this book, it would have surpassed one million copies in the blink of an eye.
As though responding to me as I continue writing day after day, every day, one person and then another would read it.
I thought that this alone would be the only help enabling “me, who was born in Japan having been granted this mind and this life,” to continue writing without being defeated by the evil that befell me on this occasion.
…To be continued.