Dear Daniel 2000/2/13
I found a long and meaning note you dropped on one my "outlook"receiver.I'm
pleased to receive it like a"tranquil afternoon"for me.

Actually, when I wrote to you "silence" letter at 3/21, I was thinking it
was a bit of a last try, as you did not answer with totally Not fault(I am
wrong), except our first times. I was honor for what you are, and then I
thought I had shocked somehow, as you stopped writing so much later on.(but
I know that my remarks border on the absurd!) Or I imagined that this is the
general case with e.mail friends, that as soon as the letters get less
frequent, then all is over. It seems that it is hard to keep a long-lasting
friendship with someone you have not met.

Well,,,Now a days I experiece that I went to the party with my best wool
pullover shrunk in the washing.I had 'really' ashamed!!
And so I went to the party calm in my conviction that for once I was wearing
something that did not look as through it had been run up by my loving hands
at home:)

I m in love to my life!Life is like a trip around the world......here s my
world.
Wow...you re gonna think I m crazy...you must not.Because I m just like
that.
Life is a kind of poem...and I m the poet of my own life.it s only that.
even if I m not Baudelaire,Verlaine,Carver or even Rimbaud.
I m writting a verse of it everyday,hoping to create at the end something
I ll feel accomplish with and ready to turn the page and to begin a new poem
ﾂwith the same objective when they will close the cover on my last rest.

Anyway, so, so far, I kept my vows and I go on living my "realistic" world,
in complete celibacy, with books, that are never too heavy as you say,
though I have quite a lot now.

Bye and take good care
ps: I keep making up mind to have what I am out with you,but everytime
somehow I don't know how to begin.
I'd write you in 5 days.I'd like to hear from you soon.
Thank you,Dan

Takayoshi Shiotani