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"Above the Equator"

2. Two Up


For my visit to a casino, the concierge called a dreamy, wonderful, white, stretch limousine. I felt like a rich man and rode in the limousine to the casino.
Casino gambling is forbidden in Japan.

Too many people block my walking sometime without no contact. Many kind of people in the world gathered and expected some dramatic fortune.I was playing the game "KINO" guessing combination of numbers. There are many young and old people playing and sitting on chairs . I did not know how to play that game at first, and I bet it by several checks.
Of course I found a pamphlet with Japanese explanation. But I began the game without reading it. It is not because of time.
I would like to learn by step by step through the game. I was changing how to bet during the game by bewaring of my stupid. After thinking and fallacy, at last I attained to get precision numbers. I was excited and went to change it. But I was sorry it was only twice of betting. I was disappointed but I changed betting next. I found a vacant seat among the full amount of cards. I wonder people can play through a day in casino. I would like to be there if air condition was good without smoke.

In an Australian casino, one plays "Two Up," betting on the heads or tails of the thrown coins. It is resemble to Japanese forbidden game "BUCKCHI" betting on the even or odd numbers of the thrown dices. When the coins are thrown up to the fortune in the future, everyone will be excited. However , fortune will sometime change to sadness. There are two ways of inviting of fortune. Wealth and happiness . Japanese "Fortune Cat" invites the wealth with left hand, that is money. She invites the happiness with right hand , that is not money. It may be not same wealth and happiness. Rich man is not always happiness. Losing money may sometime succeed to happiness.

One's lot is also like two sides of a coin. On the way back to the hotel, I stood waiting for a taxi outside in the night, gazing at the stars. But I do not think misfortune. Because the tail of the coin will be turned to its head. It is well-known that the origin of January is Janus, who is the God of the Gateway from the Beginning to the End, and has a two-sided face looking in the past and the future. I will be waiting for a taxi on my next trip to the casino, because I believe in the god that foretells that the future is the opposite side of the past....
Excuse me,
Am I a bat loser ?...


"Above the Equator"