"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Saturday, August 16, 2008
A Thousand If's
There are a thousand if's. One of them is this. If I thought for a moment that even one of them was true I would turn heaven and earth. But I am left with a thousand if's - and no truth. So, patiently, I wait.
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