Fuji, Sinai, Olympos Contributor(s): Hoffman, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1949756122 ISBN-13: 9781949756128 Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Philosophy | Eastern |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5" W x 8" (0.49 lbs) 220 pages |
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Publisher Description: Travel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Basho." (Travel) "He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village, he'd chant sutras until passersby gave him, or flung him, enough money for a flophouse bed, a little food, a bath and enough sak to induce a measure of forgetfulness. 'A beggar, ' he admonished himself, 'has to learn to be an all-out beggar. Unless he can be that, he will never taste the happiness of being a beggar.'" (Walking) '"The pleasantest of all diversions, ' said the fourteenth-century Japanese priest Kenko," is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.' Reading is inseparable from reverie. 'Sitting alone under the lamp, ' I was soon not alone at all, but hosting, I venture to say, as vivid and varied a company as ever gathered under one roof. (Genji, Myshkin and Jones) "Everest is nothing, mere seismology." (Fuji, Sinai, Olympos) |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoffman, Michael: - Michael Hoffman has lived in Japan since 1982. His columns appear regularly in the Japan Times, irregularly elsewhere. His previous books include "In the Land of the Kami: A Journey into the Hearts of Japan;" "Other Worlds; Little Pieces: This Side of Japan;" and "The Coat that Covers Him and Other Stories." |