Friday 11 March 2011

A thousand fathoms deep







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“May it grow to a thousand fathoms,” said Genji.
“Mine it shall be, rich as the grasses beneath
The fathomless sea, the thousand−fathomed sea.”




Murasaki took out brush and paper and set down her answer:






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“It may indeed be a thousand fathoms deep.
How can I know, when it restlessly comes and goes?”




She wrote well, but a pleasant girlishness remained.


(Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji)







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Tuesday 1 March 2011

A quiet, bright reedsong





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All day and night, music, 
a quiet, bright
reedsong. If it
fades, we fade. 
(Rumi)







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