Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.