#FrasesInsipiradoras

Mister Omochi is very angry. You created the most appalling tension in the meeting this morning. How could our business partners have any feeling of trust in the presence of a white girl who understood their language? From now on you will no longer speak Japanese.»
I was dumbfounded.
«I beg your pardon?»
«You no longer know how to speak Japanese. Is this clear?»
«But – it was because of my knowledge of your language that I was hired by Yumitomo!»
«That doesn’t matter. I am ordering you not to understand Japanese anymore.»
«That’s impossible. No one could obey an order like that.»
«There is always a means to obeying. That’s what Western brains need to understand.»

ーAmélie Nothomb, «Fear and trembling»