Well, I seem to go along pretty well writing and then suddenly bang into a wall. It is not like I don’t want to write or that I can’t write – the experience is more like this. I sit down to write and…I…stop. I sit and I observe. I sit and I empty the mind. I simply sit.
"…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)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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