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Making eight-page pamphlets on Ko Murobushi at the time is an unforgettable experience. We visited a small printing office located in an old area of the 10th arrondissement of Paris to make the pamphlets, referred by one of his friends from long ago, Jean Michel Palmier (In Japan, his book Jacques Lacan, which is not so significant even for Lacan scholars and among his own work, has been translated, but he is originally a late Heidegger disciple, a specialist in German expressionism and exile literature). They gave us estimated production costs and we decided on the layouts, printing type, paper quality, as well as the envelopes to be provided to the theater, all the while receiving their kind help with terms of printing we were unfamiliar with. Finally, we printed seven thousand copies of the pamphlet. According to Palmier, it seems that Polish and Jewish people often made fake passports and certificates during the war in this area, near the north station. Due to misunderstandings caused by a language barrier in the course of the process, the final products were not what we expected. But as we would never be able to beat that Arabian guy who was a former guerrilla and always had a big hound dog with him, we retreated weakly (We didn’t talk for a week because of this).

From Trans Italian Express, Shuhei Hosokawa

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Ikuya Odamaki