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Lafcadio Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
He had learned once of a French phrase for twilight: entre chien et loup, between the dog and the wolf, meaning that time of day when it’s impossible to tell these two animals – one benign and the other wild – apart. A dangerous time, when the senses could not be trusted.
Jeff Noon • A Man of Shadows
great Danish poet, Jens Peter Jacobsen.
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
“Japanese people feel relieved once you put a name to something,” said Mitsuo Takeda, a judge of the Shodoshima contest and an artist who designed a large installation featuring a bug-eyed yokai large enough to walk through. “If you are pulling grass and you get a cut and you wonder what happened,” he said, “if you think, ‘Oh, it is just a yokai,’
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