Lotus wild over sakura
Lost words finding a home....
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March 2014
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“I see I am falling into the self-punishing, cynical tone again. Yet how comforting this tone is, like a sort of poultice on ...
February 2014
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On the one hand, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is a manifestation of greed, collecting together po...
Not that it's a *bad* book, it's just...well, I can't say it better than this: "Joyce's masterwork ULYSSES (which I don't m...
January 2014
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December 2013
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Rokudan-no shirabe (Melody in six parts) - Yatsuhashi Kengyo , 1614–1685 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=totT2-eHLNQ
Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896), whom Donald Keene termed the "principal woman novelist of the Meiji period," wrote the novella Ta...
October 2013
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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) wrote Le grand écart in 1923, shortly before he started Thomas l'imposteur and already under the inf...
October 2013
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Of all those forces that threaten humanity, there are three which can be seen as the most feared: war, natural disasters and ...
This contains minor spoilers throughout!Technical aspects first: This is clearly a dated book (or else it had very lenient ed...
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), American poet, literary critic and essayist, was also an interest...
October 2013
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Rating: 1* of five The Publisher Says: A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, wh...
October 2013
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Once in a while, I stumble upon an unheard of book written by someone who expresses everything I have ever felt and says it a...
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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
The Passion According to G.H.
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A Dictionary Of Philosophy
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