Takoyaki
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. - And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
Takoyaki is serious business. It's cooked in front of you, but smiles aren't included - on the signs at least. Curiously enough all of my memories of Takoyaki stalls are of places peopled by rather happy and cheerful souls deftly spinning the ball of dough (they have octopus inside them) around on a cast iron hotplate. Sign and place, a study in contrasts. As is Japan.
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. - And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Takoyaki is serious business. It's cooked in front of you, but smiles aren't included - on the signs at least. Curiously enough all of my memories of Takoyaki stalls are of places peopled by rather happy and cheerful souls deftly spinning the ball of dough (they have octopus inside them) around on a cast iron hotplate. Sign and place, a study in contrasts. As is Japan.
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