Other factors contributing to the increased interest in dōjinshi and in fanworks were the development of fixed otaku landmarks and the spread of computers.

Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, I was unconscious, as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.

Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.

Ain't I a woman?