Going to conserve some energy in posting about Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles

Yes, because it is the end of the week I am just going to post an extract from an email that I just wrote someone:

P.S. Just read a book that I'm sure you'd enjoy: Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki. It's about a marriage (in very traditional early 20th century Japan) that's all-but-dissolved. The wife and husband are both (with each other's knowl…