The Japanese are fascinated by pottery.

Any dark ceramic with asymmetrical tenets is tacit

but could be looking up at a source of light, feeling talkative..

maintaining maximum restraint
to engage another’s psyche.

The normal exec in an expanding field by a highway will grow up, in a flash forward, and work for Strategy Foundation Japan, a company that parses pleasures around the world. Pleasures, not dreams.
Not any more. One exec becomes an energy therapist and keeps rabbits. You see virologists learn how to say what no one ever wants to hear. “You sure of that, doctor? You sure those were your rabbits?”