From now on, I will be gradually listing items from Free & Easy, which I found interesting with my own eyes back then, as I declutter. A discontinued magazine! This is an introduction to the March 2000 issue, "Free & Easy: The Aesthetics of the Brink." I reread it for the first time in a while while organizing my bookshelves, and the content of books from this era is truly luxurious. The lineup of just the title is already impressive, but there are also: "Masahiro Motoki, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yumi Matsutoya (Yuming), Hiromi Go, Seiko Matsuda, Kinji Fukasaku, George Abe, Masahiro Chono, Nobuhiko Takada, Kazushi Sakuraba, Enson Inoue" and more... the content is astounding. This is a Free & Easy with a sophisticated theme: how did these individuals deal with the "brink" that everyone inevitably faces in life? What's your approach? Nowadays, you can quickly look up the information you want, but once you find it, that's the end of it. Books like FREE&EASY force you to see things you're not interested in. Even if you skip a page back then, if you look at it again years later, a page that didn't catch your eye at the time might be perfectly relevant to you now. Life is the same: "places and people you're not interested in," "shops you went to by chance and the people you met there," "things you disliked without trying them." Perhaps the triggers that change your life are found in such places? Are you content with just skimming through articles on your smartphone, or did you spend your own money to buy books and make them part of yourself? If two people started at the same point, how would they compare after 10 years...? I believe there's a world of difference in how something becomes a part of you, even if the results look the same, depending on whether it was given to you or you decided and acted on your own. Seeing such first-class works, or not, can help you understand perspectives, ways of thinking, human strengths and weaknesses, and add depth to your character. AI? Chappie? Compliance? Harassment? In this poisoned era, where you can "think you understand" everything, an era that makes you timid about interacting with others... Do people realize society is heading in the wrong direction? Let's read more books. "Books" are good too. Condition: They have been stored on a bookshelf for a long time, so there are scratches, dirt, sun fading, and creases, but the inside should be fine. Please do not bid if you are even slightly concerned. 2000: Shintaro Katsu, Koichi Wajima, Kazuhiro Kiyohara, Southern All Stars, Mike Tyson, Steve McQueen