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Kunio Kishida
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The playwright Kunio Kishida on the words that are spoken on a stage: what happens to a written line once it passes through an actor, and how the speech of a play differs from the speech of a room.
This is not fiction. It is an essay about language itself, which makes it an odd and slightly pointed thing to find on a site that puts lines in bubbles and reads them aloud. Come to it after a few of the stories and it reads differently.
Source: Aozora Bunko; base text published by Sakuhinsha, 1988. The volunteers who transcribed and proofread it are credited on the Japanese page. The copyright on this work has expired.
The narration is synthesized speech, not a recording by a voice actor.