murasaki-shikibu

When my brother,_, was a young boy learning the Chinese classics, I was in the habit of listening with him and I became unusually proficient at understanding those passages that he found too difficult to grasp and memorize. Father a most learned man, was always regretting the fact: __ust my luck!_ he would say. __hat a pity she was not born a man!_ But then I gradually realized that people were saying __t__ bad enough when a man flaunts his Chinese learning; she will come to no good,_ and since I have avoided writing the simplest character.