I like Mizuki Setoguchi's books, especially "Howl of a Local Girl".

The following lines from the extra edition listed in Volume 9 struck a chord.

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"I learned about the reality of poverty overseas"

"You didn't get that in Japan? I'll put my thumb in your eyeball instead of hitting the 'good' button"

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At least, I think my teenager 'couldn't complain about having his thumb in his eyeball.

hen, "around this time", I learned of the reality (from data and documents), was stunned, and became an adult who "turned away" from the serious problem.

I hope that my children will be educated -- (by great other than myself) so that they will not become adults like me and not mass produce adults like me.

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And I also like the following lines.

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"Ummm... isn't life more 3D, not just left to right or up and down?"

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Yeah, I agree that there are more dimensions to life than just 3D.

However, I feel that I have an extremely low number of dimensions -- I just have a "sitting/not sitting in front of a computer" axis.

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Incidentally, the currently accepted theory in physics (superstring theory) says that the universe has at least 11 dimensions.

Someday I would like to study it properly and use it as fodder for a column.