" We had possessed and controlled the village, I thought, suddenly smitten by trembling. We had not been cut off in the village, we had occupied it. We had yielded up our dominion to the grown-upd without resistance, and in the end we were shut up in the shed. We’d been fooled, really fooled. "

― Kenzaburō Ōe , Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids