Nos-tal-gic, Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for nostalgic. Nos-tal-gic. It is good to be nos-tal-gic. Very important.Really, old fellow?Important. Very important. Nostalgic. When we nostalgic, we remember. A world better than this world we discover when we grow. We remember and wish good world come back again. So very important. Just now, I had dream. I was boy. Mother, Father, close to me. in our house.He fell silent and continued to gaze across the rubble.Akira, I said, sensing that the longer this talk went on, the greater was some danger I did not wish fully to articulate. We should move on. We have much to do.
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Kazuo Ishiguro was a contemporary British writer and nobel laureate. Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia →