"Their faces wore expressions of the purest transcendence, like samurai warriors under torture."
This book is a collection of short stories written by traveler's experiences in Japan.
The paragraph the quote is in describes two tattooed men the author sees in a sento, a shared bathhouse in an apartment building.
When I read the sentence alone, it doesn't seem to tell much about the story. But when read in the paragraph it makes a lot more sense, even though I wouldn't expect to find that this sentence was used to describe two guys in a public shower...
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