Monthly Archives August 2005

Butchery

This is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. So much so that a while ago I felt inspired to type it up. (It’s from Fung Yu-lan’s translation of the Chuang-Tzu, published by the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. Which means that, at least a while ago, it was from the […]

hosomichi

here’s another retread from last January, slightly added and with a new installment at the end:
The Narrow Road: I know of no finer use of Internet technology to illuminate “foreign” literatures than this site devoted to Basho Matsuo’s Oku no hosomichi (”The Narrow Road to the Deep North”), the ne plus ultra of travel literature. […]