Suppose for instance that we had developed our own physics and chemistry: would not the techniques and industries based on them have taken a different form, would not our myriads of everyday gadgets, our medicines, the products of our industrial art- would they not have suited our national temper better than they do?
Junichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows
“Such is our way of thinking— we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one things against another creates.”
— Junichirō Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows
