~Translation by Faith, Jan 2006.

"Life always begins from something round. If you think of the shape of an egg you will understand this. The inside, which has no power of resistance, is oriented within a sphere to escape the dangers of the outside world. It has been contrived that living creature's attack instinct decreases both physically and mentally when faced with a round shape. In short, more emblematically stated, there is nothing wrong with saying that a round shape is "cute." Let's consider the chicken. It's progression from not being able to protect itself from the outside world is egg, chick, and finally bird, correct? As for the chick, it tries to ensure its own bodily safety by becoming as round as it can, and that mimics the original round one in cuteness. And for humans as well, a baby, no matter what baby it may be, also has a cute, roundish shape. And when it comes down to it, the extinct Dodo bird, which is famous for being weeded out by natural law due to its inability to protect itself, also had a cute form, much like a stuffed animal in itself."
And I thought that lolitas try to abide by that rule as well. Their big ribbons are a mimicry of a butterfly. And so they adapt to stuffed animals, and go about living while pretending they are incompetent dolls. That is because it's the sole way of receiving protection from the cruelty of this world. If a detective's Burberry trenchcoat is armor for an easily hurt soul, then inside their decorative Jane Marpel fashion, Lolita are wrapping away cells made from glass. And that is the maiden's "hard-boiled-eggism." The skating ring they dance upon is a thin film of ice, the subtlty between truth and fiction. And the Lolita well know that beneath the ice lies the abominable surface of reality, and that when spring comes the ice will melt and fade away. But even still, with the cookoo clock with the broken fiddleheads poking through (only the second hand moves.; the hour and minute hands forever point to the same place), they cannot remove their skates.