Kazuo Ishiguro: "The Remains of the Day"

Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize!!!!!!!

Yay!!!!!!!!

"What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it."

"Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?"