You could be hearing things, sitting there still look ahead or look down s_tuck in a slim box anything could happen The cook (who cooks nothing at all) takes a living eel, sticks a long pin into its head, and scrapes it, skins it. This scene, so rapid and wet (rather than bloody), of minor cruelty will conclude in lace. (B,24) "Bura kumin (village people) or pejoratively Eta (those full of filth). Buraku industries include shoe making, dying, slaughtering animals and handling their skins, crematorium and grave work and scrap collection of all kinds. Handling of corpses and burial of the dead. Fried tripe is a Buraku snack. iremon-ya - literally container ie., stomach shop." (Da)

2. machinic orchestration h e a r i n g things...I could be hearing things - am hearing things loud and quiet standing here still on the balcony - up look down daytime TV samurai, or is it the ninjas angry tones laughter (flesh) 1. falling haishi lands landing is h(e)ard clinks chinking crockery traffic back_round hum-m m-urmer fade to back out - in edit to - siren accompanied by howling dogs 3. glide bi _ cycle shut is a door next door horn sound is a wide van on the s_lim street brakes screech . stop . in that tinny way they do

"It is true that the people, although mostly destitute, where heavy drinkers of shochu, a poor grade rice brandy. Fragile family ties and unregistered common-law marriages where fairly frequent in Iwamato-cho, as was wife beating."(Da) There is an attempt to deny the existence of ghosts by discouraging rumours about them. (Ivy) "Eating meat was formerly exclusively a Buraku habit...A taste for the internal organs of animals continues to be an abhorrent Buraku characteristic." (Da) Is this stuff true, should I be writing it? Why am I relaying this? A re-construction of the creation of an outcast community. Perhaps this: "They can 'code switch' when necessary. I met a group of Japanese artists in Paris in the 1970's. One revealed to me that many of the older members where minority outcastes. Some of the others where Koreans with Japanese names." (Da)