Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki & Jay Rubin (translator)

Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki & Jay Rubin (translator)

Author:Natsume Sōseki & Jay Rubin (translator)
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Classics
ISBN: 9780141938073
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1908-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


6

The bell rang and the instructor left the room. Sanshirō shook the ink from his pen and was closing his notebook when Yojirō turned to him.

“Hey, let me see that, will you? I missed a few things.”

Yojirō drew the notebook over and peered into it. The page was covered with the words “Stray sheep.”

“What’s this?”

“I got tired of taking notes and started scribbling.”

“Pay more attention next time, will you? He was saying something about Kant’s transcendental idealism versus Berkeley’s transcendental realism, wasn’t he?”

“Something like that.”

“You weren’t listening?”

“No.”

“You really are a ‘stray sheep.’ Oh, well…”

Yojirō stood up with his notebook and started away from his desk. “Come with me,” he said to Sanshirō, who followed him out of the classroom. They went downstairs and out to the front lawn. A large cherry tree stood there. The two sat down beneath it.

This place became a field of clover in the early summer. When Yojirō had first arrived with his application for admission to the University, he had seen two students lying under the tree. One said to the other, “If they’d let me sing the oral exam, I’d have plenty of answers for them.” The second began to sing softly:

Oh, give me a professor

Who knows what life’s about.

So when I take a test on love,

I’ll pass without a doubt.



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