During the 10th century, a Japanese court woman wrote a collection of lists of her daily preoccupations entitled The Pillow book.
Here is her most famous entry :
Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster
Sparrows feeding their young.
To pass a place where babies are playing.
To sleep in a room where some fine incense has been burnt.
To notice that one’s elegant Chinese mirror has become a little cloudy.
To see a gentleman stop his carriage before one’s gate and instruct his attendants to announce his arrival.
To wash one’s hair, make one’s toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
It is night and one is expecting a visitor.
Suddenly one is startled by the sound of raindrops, which the wind blows against the shutters.
Don't you feel like Perfectly Imperfect is like a giant, modern-age Pillow Book ?
