Quote #02: Essays of Idleness: Part 1 (Yoshida Kenko)

[jusrecht]

This one has waaaay to many quotes to be posted all at once. It takes up to ten pages of my quote book >_< So I'll just divide them into a few posts because too many good sayings at once is not really good after all xD

Title: Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)
Author: Yoshida Kenko
Translated by: Donald Keene

Comments

[ceasefire]

I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with 73.

[jusrecht]

It depends on the context, I suppose? I think he was talking about someone who witnessed an incident and then retold it falsely.

[ceasefire]

I think it would depend on how boring the incident was... coz both fact and fiction can be equally boring or exciting depending on your personal perspective of the subject XD;

[jusrecht]

Er, I'm not sure I get what you mean orz Why would one lie about it? I mean, if it's boring then it's boring and if it's exciting then it's exciting, why tell it differently? o.o

[ceasefire]

Because some people like pretending things were much more exciting than they actually were, because there's probably more people out there who want to be interesting than uninteresting. XD;;

[jusrecht]

Ah, that's true ;w;