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There was a favorite secondhand bookstore in a corner of the city that once lived. When going there, old shopkeepers with habit will recommend cigarettes. While enjoying a cigarette slowly by themselves, I enjoyed a conversation that would not be a conversation. Always the shopkeeper cheaper the price of the book I want, sometimes gave me a book. There are people who borrowed books and have been using the library. That bookstore is no longer. There are no old shop owner already saying that he is doing a second-hand book shop for 50 years or more. The old ones take the story and sadness as natural as they do before me and go away. The time passed is still turning around me around the sound like a good piano.

かつて住んでいた街の片隅にお気に入りの古本屋があった。そこに行くと、癖のある老店主がタバコを勧めてくれる。二人でゆっくりとタバコを吸いながら、会話にならないような会話を楽しんだ。いつも店主は私がほしい本の価格を安くしてくれて、時には本をくれたりした。私だけではなかった。そこで本を借りて図書館がわりにしていた人もいる。その本屋はもうない。50年以上古本屋をやっていると言っていた老店主ももういない。老いたるものたちは私よりも先に物語と悲しみを当然のように引き受けて消えて行く。過ぎ去った時間は響きの良いピアノのような音をたてて私の周りを今も回っている。

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