This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shon… - Peter Greenaway

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This is the writing of Nagiko Kiyohara no Motosuke Sei Shonagon, and I know you to have blackmailed, violated and humiliated my father. I suspect you also of ruining my husband. You have now committed the greatest crime -- you have desecrated the body of my lover. You and I now know that you have lived long enough.

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Peter Greenaway CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director.

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