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A story is an escape. Not an escape from life, but an escape from what keeps us from living it. Not an evasion, but a better way through.

A story is a way to tunnel beneath the bars. To dig away the dirt. Bit by bit by bit. It is patience, resistance, resilience, resolve. A chisel. A pick. A hammer. Split stone and debris. A slow and steady crawl, until finally we're free...

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The figure of a person in an underground cave, peering up towards a shaft of light from a small opening.

A tale from Benjamin Lacombe's Japanese myth books volume one and two:

📕Geistergeschichten aus Japan

📕Japanische Geister und Naturwesen
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The fisherman, Urashima Tarō rescued a turtle that took him to the undersea Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) where he fell in love with Princess Otohime.

After a few days, he wanted to return home and she gave him a parting box.

When he arrived on land, he did not recognize his village or anyone there. Asking around, he realizes that almost 100 years had passed.

Miserable, he opened the box and immediately turned into an old man (in some cases- to dust) as the years caught up with him.

Art by the illustrator, Benjamin Lacombe. Japanese myth features heavily in two of his works which I have only seen in German/ Italian so far!

His books feature the stories as told by Lafcadio …

Image by Benjamin Lacombe shows a Japanese fisherman on a small boat. There is a massive wave towering over him with red and green fish heads poking out and a woman made of water/shaped out of water is staring down at him.

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