Teaser 1
“Hurry up! We have to be at the bridge by 4:30 p.m., otherwise we’ll miss the sun portal!”
“The sun portal? You mean the sunset?”
“No. The sun portal is something completely different from the sunset itself. It’s more of a feeling you can’t really describe. In Japanese, I think they call it ‘mono no aware’.”
“If it’s a feeling you can’t really describe, why did you just describe it, and since when do you know Japanese?”
“Ha ha, it’s a state that signifies a gentle melancholy and a deep beauty of transience, and I don’t know Japanese, just a few words.”
“Okay, now I’m even more confused.”
“Japanese literature has many such words. Because occasionally, everyone finds it difficult to describe a situation. Sometimes you can only feel it and let it be felt, Méa.”
Mono no aware.
