I became convinced that I was being watched. Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it was Mizuko rather than a stranger. I hoped that there might still be a reunion. I hoped it in the shy, sly way hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box, last–after everything and everyone else has escaped. Olivia Sudjic
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I became convinced that I was being watched.I thought that I was being watched because a part of me, the self, was still leaking everywhere. Even though I had stopped watching myself, a part of me still looked in the mirror and saw a stranger looking back at me. I hoped that if there were a reunion, there could be a second chance for everything to return to the way it was before. I didn't want anything from this person in particular, but I hoped that something could be returned to its original state.

The idea of hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box. The idea of hope is translated so it can't be understood or put into words. As the hope comes out of the jar, it's not clear what's happening, but it's something more than anything else.

Hope is also translated so it doesn't mean anything. Hope is translated into English so that people won't understand what it means, but it doesn't mean anything when translated into English. When translated into Japanese, however, hope does mean something because the translator understands what it means.

Hope is something more than anything else and even greater than all else.

Source: Sympathy

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