雨ニモマケズ
風ニモマケズ
雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ
大丈ナカラダヲモチ
慾ハナク
決シ瞋ラズ
イツモシズカニワラッテイル
一日ニ玄米四合ト
味噌ト少シノ野菜ヲタベ
アラユルコトヲ
ジブンヲカシジョウニ入レズニ
ヨクミキキシワカリ
ソシテワスレズ
野原ノ松ノ林ノ蔭ノ
小サナ萱ブキノ小屋ニイテ
東ニ病気ノコドモアレバ
行ッテ看病シテヤリ
西ニツカレタ母アレバ
行ッテソノ稲ノ束ヲ負イ
南ニ死ニソウナ人アレバ
行ッテコワガラナクテモイイトイイ
北ニケンカヤソショウガアレバ
ツマラナイカラヤメロトイイ
ヒデリノトキハナミダヲナガシ
サムサノナツハオロオロアルキ
ミンナニデクノボートヨバレ
ホメラレモセズ
クニモサレズ
ソウイウモノニ
ワタシハナリタイ

-Miyazawa Kenji, ( Read more... )

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I don't usually indulge in the list craze and it seems like whenever I do, it somehow relates to literature. Meme time:

Copy and paste this list
1. Bold the one's you've read
2. Italicize the ones you haven't read yet but plan on reading
3. Add 3 to the end

( GIRTH )

A few things ( Read more... )

(i find your essence:
copper curls of hair,
golden whisps that
spasm like fireflies around
violently blue moons.)

I have been reading Immortality by Milan Kundera lately. I think I tend to overthink language whenever I read literature in translation. I have a hard time easing off the fact that what I am reading is riddled with all sorts of ( Read more... )

My weekend in Heian-kyo, summarized as tersely as possible ( Read more... )

Lance Nakayama was calling his broker to dump his InfoSpace stock when he was almost struck by an airborne Chinook.

:)

"But of course The Great American Public has a handicap which my friends at La Ferte did not as a rule have--education. Let no one sound his indignant yawp at this. I refer to the fact that, for an educated gent or lady, to create is first of all to destroy--that there is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby we ( Read more... )

"He came back to San Francisco the next morning: stiff, hung over, and so fucking mad at her that he never washed her puke off that fender. He drove around San Francisco for months with that stuff residing there like a betrayed kingdom until it wore itself away."

-Richard Brautigan