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"He spent ten years in Thibet organising the clarified butter industry on modern European lines, and was able to retire at thirty-six with a handsome fortune. The rest of his life he devoted to travel and ratiocination; here is the result."
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
"He took the Naval Chronicle, and after a little while he burst in upon Stephen's ratiocination with a fine exultant cry, 'By God, Stephen, she did it! Ajax came up with the Méduse off La Hogue and beat her into mummy in thirty-five minutes...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 361
There are numerous un-Japanese things about Wordsworth, I find.
What is un-Japanese about Wordsworth, however - and you only need to remember a poem like The Prelude or "Tintern Abbey" to realise it - is the nimbus of introspection and ratiocination which surrounds the physical details of the scene. Seamus Heaney in The Guardian.