The sad forest for the strange birds flying among silent castles.             The Japanese edition uploaded in October 21, 2006 was translated into English in November 3, 2006.             But since it was unsatisfactory translation, it was retranslated in Jun 8, 2014.             Hiromasa Noguti, that is, Cotosiro. To old edition.
		This place is called sad forest. Why, did you ask "why is this beautiful forest sad?"? I see. You look like wanting to know the truth, from the heart. All right, I will tell you the deep reason. Listen to me, concentrating yourself. To tell the truth, it is that it is because I am not in this forest in spite of existing in this forest together with strange birds. But, it is certain that this utterance includes the terrible contradiction. If so, it may be that I shouldn't have self-confidence in this utterance. But I think to have this confidence. Anyway, it is that I at the far past were forced to be put on such a strange relationship with this forest. And, I can see and know all things about this forest clearly though I can't assert so clearly that this is the effect of that strange relationship. Probably it would be because I am certainly in this forest in spite of being not here. Thick coniferous forest are spreading endlessly in front of my eyes whenever I see. And, among the coniferous trees, it can see the countless castles the Satan and witches led to the sleep are standing silently here and there.
		It was the castles kings very famous in spite of being terribly vicious and greedy, at the real world, are living in. But, even slight sound can't be heard at the castles at all now. It was because the kings already couldn't move, being in the frozen condition at the castle they each lived in. In that meaning, the kings, as it thought before, also weren't there in spite of being there as it thought before. "The luxury the monarch enjoys is the symbol of the national power. Therefore, I, to defend the people and make the people happy, enjoys the luxury, wages the wars.". "The luxury the monarch enjoys is recognized as the expression of the national power by the foreign countries and the people. Therefore, I, to protect the people and make the people happy, enjoys the luxury, wages the wars.". "Because it can't improve the performance of the weapons if it doesn't wage a war. Then, the soldiers also don't come to be strong, isn't it ?". "Therefore, to defend the people against the enemies, I shouldn't lack a war and my luxury". The cunning kings in the real world were deceiving the people, saying like that together with their followers always. To tell the truth, it is that they were waging the wars, to rob other countries of the wealth and dodge the dissatisfaction the people feel about the politics.
	But, many of the people don't notice the thing unfortunately. Rather, it is that the people, caught in the vote-catching policy the king plots, supported the king passionately. As you saw through, it was the natural course that the people suffered the terrible pain, soon. The persons having gained the benefit in the wars always were only the vicious kings and its few followers.
	However, the lie resemble dry ice very much in that it freezes a person's thinking. So, it is that the vicious kings, freezing little by little because of one's lie everytime they tell a lie, were shut in the icicle at last. Needless to say, it was because their thinking is in the stopped situation with getting frozen because of the lies they told. By any chance, would you think it is difficult a little to understand this ? But, since it isn't so difficult, listen to me for a while. The first cause is the antinomy which becomes obvious rapidly because of their telling the lies. And, the second cause id the unconscious mind which wants the thing that one's lie is truth. Don't you think that these causes obstruct the logical consistency of their thinking terribly? As a matter of fact, in that reason, it is that they were obliged to get shut in to the icicle called a delusion with ignoring the fact because of one's lie. It was natural course that they became frozen completely, soon. However, since they, becoming frozen, became stiff as if it is the ice of glacier, this forest is peace very much. Various colored strange birds are flying soundlessly without the flapping of wings around the castles sinking deeply among the coniferous trees. Yes, even if it is sad forest for me, it was the gentle peaceful forest for the birds.
	Needless to say, since they are birds living in this fantastical forest, it isn't common bird. Doubtlessly, the blue birds flying there are blue bird in question that Maeterlinck imagined to express good luck. However, it is strange a little. These blue birds silently flying seem to be increasing so rapid that it seems to be abnormal in here as well as the yellow birds. But I don't know when the blue birds and yellow birds increased like this. They had increased before it notices. Anyhow, it is certain the yellow birds are the canaries who forgot singing. To tell the truth, once upon a time, there was the canary who suffered the terrible bashing because of her having forgotten singing. And, it is that this canary had disappeared out of the real world with taking the advantage of the situation that it was forced to board a small boat, put on a creek of somewhere together with the boat. As a matter of fact, I have been anxious, feeling this canary may have lost the place to live in. But, it was unexpected she is here increasing like this now, isn't it? Certainly they can spend free time without anxiety it is forced to sing, as long as they are here. It may be natural that they escaped to this forest, getting tired of the insistent bashing.
			However, contrary to the silent yellow birds, as for the green birds, it often is singing with the showy behavior "This world is the rose colored world able to do all things". But, it needs to be careful on them. It is because the green bird is the temporary appearance of the bird called a red liar bird having double tongues. Anyhow, I were astonished, noticing the liar birds are advancing into even this forest. Probably, they had increased in the real world too much. So, it would be that it come in this forest, overflowing out of the real world one after another. However, as the proverb says "the lie comes true as a time", the green birds often change to the blue birds here in spite of the temporary shape of the red liar bird. And, it never again go back to red liar bird if it changed like that once. It was genuine blue bird persistently.
	By any chance, it may be that it means that a person not refusing to believe is given a true salvation. Anyhow, this strange phenomenon was the fine gift from this forest. In other words, this forest also was the place that the spirit of hope who is in Pandora's box lives in. However, there is one problem about the thing. Though I can see all things of this forest, the living things in this forest don't know the existence of me at all. In other words, the blue birds also don't know the existence of me at all. It seems that it is because the living things in this forest can't distinguish me from the sight of this forest at all. This must be the devil's intrigue surely. In that meaning, I, as it thought, were not here in spite of existing in this forest. In other words, it is that the existence of me was concealed by someone, probably by devil secretly. I am not even a transparent person any longer. If so, what kind of existence would I be ? Here the words of ghost flash through my mind suddenly. By any chance, am I ghost? ?
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