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Iwakan is one of my favorite Japanese phrases. It consists of three Chinese characters, 違 ( i , meaning difference, deviation), 和 ( wa , meaning harmony, peace) and 感 ( kan , meaning feeling, sense), that together form a single word that loosely translates as a ‘sense of disharmony’. In daily interactions, I use the term casually when something fee... See more
Jack Ross • Disharmony as Intelligence - Tetragrammaton
a haiku is a Japanese short poem form. It has seventeen syllables and is written in three lines. It often mentions a season and something from nature.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Haiku — a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Yohji Yamamoto is living on his own terms
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which he finally finished with the unhappy certainty that he had gotten all of it wrong.
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller (Picador Collection)
The two of them didn’t know it at the time, but this was the only truly complete place in the entire world. Totally isolated, yet the one place not tainted with loneliness.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.