It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing — and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
(現在ならmenはpeople、the last manはthe last one、その他の言い回しを使っているだろう）
The restaurant, whose name is a play on the title of a Japanese book, “A Restaurant of Many Orders,” was inspired by Oguni’s experience of being served a dumpling instead of a hamburger one day at a nursing care facility.
Recounting the story, he said he was about to point out the error but stopped himself and thought, “This is the world people with dementia live in. It’s no big deal. It’s OK to make mistakes.”
