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S4E9 | “The Victim” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The Paris Review

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The Confrontation of Paintings

A man leads a reluctant girl to a room with a view of the Great River where he shows her two large picture scrolls representing her true nature and future. The girl becomes terrified and pleads for the man to hide the second painting, but he insists that she should study it more carefully.

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