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Got back from a really excellent night out to find a notice on the door.

My apartment is severely late in paying for heating and hot water, and the gas company is threatening to cut us off.

...Not that I see much heating or hot water, usually, but some is better than none when it's December.

Facepalm.

Kawabata Yasunari -- The Sound Of The Mountain

The library doesn't have a JSTOR subscription, so in looking for criticism of The Sound of the Mountain, I didn't turn up very much but an odd little review from a 1970 issue of TIME magazine, which declares:

( Not since Icelander Halldór Laxness was plucked from above the tree line in 1955 has there been such total befuddlement as greeted the 1968 award to Novelist Yasunari Kawabata. )