We came to see as much as we came to flee. We came ,not only because we wanted to, but because we had to. We were tourists and we were refugees, fleeing an invisible, inexplicable danger. We did not know whether we ran from fear or out of fear. And fear was all around and afflicted all. To be sane in this fear epidemic was insanity. People ran out of fear, they bought up food on shelves, drained battery supplies and emptied water racks so much that these had to be rationed People fled with their belongings and packed airports. They ran with what they could hold, some hoping to come back, others determined not to. And we came to Kyoto. The reason we went to Kyoto was that we could not go anywhere else. The
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