Who was that guy?

Corbett | June 24, 2007 11:03 PM

After way too many years, I'm getting rid of all my old books. While thumbing through a copy of Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai, a few small notes fell out in my handwriting. It's always interesting to revisit your former self, if only for a few moments, even if you don't remember who the hell that was. Here's what interested that guy back then (20 yrs ago).

From Beauty and Sadness, by Yasunari Kawatabata -
p32 - "Only the beauty of it had been heightened, to the point that it was unmarred by any moral questioning."

p163 - "Time flows through human beings in the same way but every human being flows through time differently."

From A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster -
p132 - "I'm a holiman minus the holiness (just a guy who travels light)."

p245 - She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it. She was a real person."

Response 1: Do you push life, or does it push you?
Response 2: Do you "actively" - with conscious motives - some design or outcome in mind, irritate the equilibrium of existence, or are you a product of environment, moresay nudged on by ulteriors?

To Homare:
A painting, creation, where the colors, textures, and forms and space, light and shadow rather than words, dyes, notes (Is it possible - of course, but who will be the audience?) are human experiences?

Isn't to live a full life the greatest work of art?
Fullness of life? What is it?
What are you to do while inside the painting?
Stepping back to view the work, how can you really judge it until it's finished?
*Stepping back is admitting it isn't done.
Things finish themselves, especially paintings, so shouldn't we just wait until it's finished?

Who was Apollinaire with his head wrapped in bandages?

Upon landing at CKS Airport. It's not really the comfort of going home, or the anticipation of someplace new.

Category: Ramble

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