We found a cab. I got in first and she slid in behind me. She told the driver to take us to 3-3-5 Shibuya-ku, south side of Roppongi-dori. I smiled. "Tantra?" I asked. She looked at me, perhaps a little disappointed. "You know it?" "It's been around for a long time. Good place." "I didn't think you'd know it. You're a little… older." I laughed. If she'd been trying to get a rise out of me, she had missed the mark. I'm never going to be sensitive about my age. Most of the people I knew when I was younger are already dead. That I'm still breathing is actually a point of pride. "Tantra is like sex," I told her, smiling a little indulgently. "Every generation thinks it's the one that discovered it.
( Barry Eisler )
[ A Lonely Resurrection ]
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