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ca-4959	Hammering, Klaus K. Y.	Gambling, Dignity, and the Narcotic of Time in Tokyo’s Day-Laborer District, San’ya	2022		.htm	text/html	11317	472	61	So too, when dust particles flew in the air, San’ya day laborers either turned their faces or wrapped a towel over their mouths. Yet as gambling races proper, they demonstrated the qualities of precipitation and jeopardy—of missing the mark—that Benjamin discerns in gambling, or that Schüll explicates as the “hook” that initiates the fledgling gambler’s repetition compulsion.16 With horses, this moment did not arrive until the end of the race, when the animals accelerated into a sprint, and at WINS, the final seconds of a race were therefore accompanied by loud shouting and exultation.	cache/ca-4959.htm	txt/ca-4959.txt