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Korogi takes a sip of her own tea. “You probably don't know this, but if you're seriously trying to run away from something, one of the best jobs you can take is helper at a love hotel. You can make a lot more money as a maid in a traditional Japanese inn—get lots of tips—but you have to meet people and talk to them. Working in a love hotel, you don‘t have to show your face to guests. You can work in secret, in the dark. They'll usually give you a place to sleep, too. And they don‘t ask you for CVs or guarantors ‘n’ stuff. Tou tell ‘em you can't give ‘em your real name, and they say, like, ‘Okay, why don't we call you cricket?” ‘Cause they're always short of help. You got a lot of people with guilty consciences working in this world."

— Haruki Murakami, After Dark p. 191

There is a story of a super-respectful official of the Raj who found his British superior laboriously correcting a letter he had written to a fellow Indian: “Your honour purs yourself to much trouble correcting my English and doubtless the final letter will be much better literature,” the corrected one commented. “But it will go from me Mukherji to him Bannerji, and Bannerji will understand it a great deal better as I Mukherji write it than as your honour corrects it."

— Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax p. 201

Next Time Someone Says Good to See You.
Say Its Good to be seen

— Anonymous, Suggestion p. 364

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