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...doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates?distantly???to the problem that we had temporarily put aside...
Everywhere in Japan, one senses an intricate serenity that comes to a people who know precisely what to expect from each other. But one also senses?occasionally, distantly???a disconcerted, vaguely frantic emotional vibration, a feeling of dislocation and alienation and incipient loss. The Japanese are almost obsessively aware of their problems; it is possible that they exaggerate them in order to execute a subtle kind of psychological evasion?the domestic concerns relieving them, implicitly, of larger international responsibilities...
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