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In the list "Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster" from Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book, the author delights in a cloudy mirror, rain on a window, and scented robes. So shrewd an observer is Shōnagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book's musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life _____ readers a thousand years later.