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Suddenly, O’Sensei began to speak:

“I understood Japanese vaguely then. I couldn’t speak very much, but I could understand that he was saying something like, ’Hey you, out there!’ His back was turned toward me, and he said, ‘Why don’t you come in here, don’t stand out there.’ Of course, I looked around and didn’t see anyone else there but me, so I approached the door, and I said, ‘Boku?,’ which means ‘me’ in Japanese. And he said, ‘Yes, you!’ So I went in and sat down and faced him on the other side of the table.

“I was very intimidated. He didn’t even look at me. He continued to read, and I looked at him. I had never thought what I’d feel like (meeting O’Sensei). I guess I’d never expected to feel like a dumb fool, just sitting there—and I sat there for a good long period, ten or fifteen minutes. That’s when he wet his finger and reached back behind him, without looking, and brought out a little baby cockroach—he had caught him on his back and his little legs were waving in the air—and I looked at it and said, ‘Oh, yeah.’ And he put it down and let it run away. He never killed things, never even flies or mosquitos.”