tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48988138379484274362024-03-06T14:04:47.205+09:00kyoto cactibrankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-67729547410997614412018-05-07T19:32:00.000+09:002018-05-07T20:12:45.553+09:00Time Travel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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dreamed of being transported in time to a world entirely at odds with the one we
live in. Suppose a time machine were invented and is now at hand. A question
then: if you had a choice, which era / place would you want to end up in? Me, I
always head a weak spot for the ancient Athens: it would be lovely to wash
vegetables together with Diogenes or play poker with Socrates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">Well, last
Sunday April 29<sup>th</sup>, at <a href="http://www.jonangu.com/english.html" target="_blank">Jōnangū shrine</a> in south Kyoto I did experience
time-travel of sorts. Twice a year – in spring and autumn – the shrine hosts a re-enactment
of an ancient poem-composing ritual, called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kyokusui
no Utage</i></span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">曲水の宴</span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">(Wandering Stream Banquet). It is a ceremony
going back to the late Nara period (8<sup>th</sup> C.). The practice slowly
died out as the samurai gained political power, until a revival in the mid 20<sup>th</sup>
century. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Seven </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry)" target="_blank">waka</a></i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> masters (5 men, 2 ladies) dressed in
rich silk robes gracefully proceed onto a moss-carpeted garden and, after
receiving the season's theme from the shrine priests, seat themselves along a garden
stream, and write their poems on strips of paper to the tune of a </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_(instrument)" target="_blank">koto</a></i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> melody wafting through the air. As
the small cups of sake are sent sailing down the stream on bird-shaped boats,
the poets occasionally lift the cup and take a sip. Once the </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">waka</i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> have been composed, the strips of
paper are collected and what follows is the highlight: the poems are finally read,
or rather chanted out by a mini-choir of Shinto priests: a powerful, expressive
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-71221422107862645992018-03-23T23:23:00.000+09:002018-03-28T17:28:34.267+09:00Pigs and Greeks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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third day running the rain is lashing against the windows, powerful gales are shaking
the shutters, assaulting a rare passer-by or whoever heroically waits at the
bus stop. Just below the house the furrows on the vegetable field are saturated
with rainwater, brushwood and green onion stalks lying low, looking beaten. Shrouded
in thick mist, Mount Hiei smoulders like a massive pyre. Up the famous
mountain, somewhere deep in the forest, right now there are wild boars braving
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them being constantly on the move, alone, trudging the mud from tree to tree, sniffing,
looking to shelter from the relentless squall. Recently there has been a
resurgence of wild boar in and around the old capital. There have been numerous
sightings, and on occasion an animal has been caught on camera, as was the case
a few days ago when a well-rounded specimen roamed the grounds of Kyoto
University campus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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blame them? A hog is a hog. A hog longs for rummaging but unless one is a hog
one does not know why. If I were a boar I’d likely do the same: I’d wallow, I’d
forage, I’d drag my snout through dirt, I’d trespass, I’d raid, I’d invade. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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boar. Ovid’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Metamorphoses</i> narrates
the legend in ‘Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)’. In it Aphrodite ‘pillows her
head’ on Adonis’ chest as she recounts the story of Atalanta and Hippomenes,
two ‘godless lovers’ who make passionate love in a cave shrine ‘older than a
human race’, where the wooden images of the ancient gods ‘averted their carved
faces in horror’. For their act of sacrilege Atalanta and Hippomenes are transmuted
into a pair of lions, ‘with a thorny scrub of a nuptial chamber’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tw cen mt" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Do not ruin our love with your
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<span style="font-family: "tw cen mt" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Glanced off the bone into the hump
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injured in the thigh as a boy during a boar hunt. </span></span><span style="font-family: "tw cen mt" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The boar
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strikes me is Homer’s description of the boar before he is disturbed by the footsteps
of humans and dogs: the boar lies hidden in his lair, and is completely invisible:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a great boar lay in its closely-knit lair.<br />
The power of wet-blowing winds could not blow through it,<br />
nor the shining sun strike it with its rays,<br />
nor yet did the rain penetrate it, so solid it was,<br />
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of a boar ‘constantly on the move’ in harsh weather is then most likely
incorrect, as the beast seems to be adept at securing itself inside shelters
impenetrable to the elements. Well, my lesson for today: check the facts if your
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-47808934847304874502018-02-11T11:16:00.000+09:002018-02-11T11:16:47.462+09:00Midorogaike Jizo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is odd
to imagine that once upon a time this stately piece lay buried in a peat bog on
the outskirts of Kyoto city. The handsome fella is in fact a bodhisattva Jizo
statue, and the bog none other than our Midoroga pond. This Jizo is believed to
be one of six similar statues carved from a single tree by one Ono-no-Takamura,
a scholar who lived, died, then lived again in the early Heian period. The
legend tells how the man passed, spent time in the underworld, then rose from
the dead after some serious worshipping the Jizo. Once back on earth Takamura set
about carving the six statues in the heat of religious verve.</span><br />
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finished products were individually distributed to guard each one of the six
ancient routes linking Kyoto with various towns and municipalities, such as
Fushimi, Toba, Nagoya etc. <i>Kurama-kaido</i>
connected Rakuchu (inner Kyoto city) to Shiga and beyond. It had the statue –
affectionately known by locals as Kuramaguchi, or Midorogaike, or Aneko Jizo – posted
at the road’s entrance, serving as a safe journey guardian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kurama-kaido</span><span style="font-size: large;"> used to pass by Midoroga pond. Tradition
has it that nearby lay ‘a demon gateway’. The demons were supposed to reside in
Kurama and Kifune, a few kilometres north of the pond. In order to keep the
wretches at bay, the custom of bean-throwing (mamemaki, </span><span lang="JA">豆まき</span><span style="font-size: large;">) sat about at a nearby Yoshida
shrine and has been continued to this day as part of the Setsubun </span>(<span lang="JA">節分</span>)<span style="font-size: large;"> celebrations at the start of
spring (</span>Feb 3<sup>rd</sup><span style="font-size: large;">).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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remains unclear though how this particular statue ended up in the bog, or the
way it was found and retrieved from its muddy cradle. Currently the statue, all
spruced up, sits enshrined at Jozenji near the present day Kuramaguchi subway
station – once a boundary separating the inner city (rakuchu) from the suburbs
(rakugai), or ‘the world beyond’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is one of those local ‘B-temples’, exuding a certain dose of neglect and lack
of refinement (an odd carton box in the worship hall, a motorbike casually
stationed by the main entrance). At the same time this semi-lax atmosphere
lends it an air of intimacy that is largely absent from its more famous,
touristy cousins. In late August pilgrims flock to the temple for the Kyoto
Rokujizo Meguri – a pilgrimage to Six Jizo temples. The ceremony involves the worshippers
walking along the route connecting the points of the ancient roads, as well as hanging
paper amulets (<i>ofuda</i>) outside their
homes for exorcising unquiet spirits. The powers of superstition drag on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* A pond about 1,500m in
circumference</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* Creatures surviving since the Ice Age</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* Biological communities
designated as natural treasures </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* A pond
of many legends</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* The name’s origin unknown. One link to the discovery of "Miroku Bosatsu Bodhisattva statue" inside the pond</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">* Midorogaike</span><i style="font-size: x-large;"> </i><i><span lang="JA">深泥池</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">: a straight reading of kanji impossible, loosely translated as ‘a bottomless muddy pond’</span></span><br />
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-11995886955994274222017-10-09T19:43:00.002+09:002018-02-11T10:18:21.513+09:00Bonsai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "king";">‘On behalf of Kyoto municipality, thank you for coming today
to the special bonsai exhibition’ </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">‒</span><span style="font-family: "king";"> begins a slim,
middle-aged Japanese lady dressed in lemon-tinted kimono, addressing a dozen or
so visitors (mostly tourists) who have joined the tour on this rainy Friday
afternoon. Her yellowy attire which blends well with the moss and juniper
greens of the bonsai exhibits, her black hair styled into a bob cut, her small
steps as she glides across the wooden parquet of Nijo castle, her synthetic
smile, are all part of the eye-pleasing décor, at the same time feeling a tad oppressive,
lacking in warmth and spontaneity. This <i>is</i> Kyoto after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "king";">The latter is thankfully provided by a colleague of hers, a Japanese
male in his early forties </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">‒</span><span style="font-family: "king";"> congenial, well informed and
instantly likeable. Whatever information the lemon-lady delivers in sober,
unexcitable manner, he livens up with interesting detail or insight. There is
something in his demeanour, calm yet passionate about the subject, that drives visitors
to bombard him with questions. For my part, I wait until after the 30-minute
tour is over and the tourists have by and large dispersed. This is my chance: everything
I always wanted to know about bonsai but was afraid to ask. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in nature. Also the bonsai tree has a deeper cut from the front, so that the
viewer has a better look. The best way to enjoy bonsai is to crouch down and
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eye are two wooden structures nestled high up the hill in the midst of a thick,
lush forest overlooking Biwa lake. The sight alone is intriguing enough to make
one wish to visit the temple in the first place. A map by the footpath suggests
large temple grounds. What sticks out is an odd-looking position of three
bridges, situated in the very close proximity to each other. Our visit will show
that bridges are not the only unusual feature at Hiyoshi Taisha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pay entrance fee, somewhat surprising as Shinto shrines in Japan are usually
visited free of charge. I later learn that in the Middle Ages, the nearby Enryaku-ji
temple influenced the shrine to include some Buddhist ethos: could this be the
reason for fee inclusion? A middle-aged woman with an overly serious expression
hands us the printed guides: the English version, being a single sheet of typed
text on A4 sheet of paper, looks a poor cousin to its fancy Japanese counterpart.
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is built in <i>Sanno</i> style, unusual in
that its two top lintels are crowned with a triangular attachment, a sort of gable,
thus creating a ‘rooftop’, or perhaps an ‘arms-in-prayer’, effect (Wikipedia
suggests Hiyoshi Taisha has the best example of <i>Sanno torii</i> in Japan).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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sauntering up a wide gravel path. It is a beautiful, crisp autumn day. After a
few minutes another surprise: inside a metal cage two snow monkeys! It strikes
us immediately how small and dark the cage is. Poor fellas, they could
certainly do with some exercise. Give them more elbow room for pity’s sake! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and soon come upon a rock apparently of certain import. My companion Y. kindly
translates the adjacent notice, which states the rock is considered medicinal.
It has a slight depression in the middle, allowing for rainwater to develop on
rainy days. Thus formed, the water inside this puddle is believed to be therapeutic,
for the ailing eye in particular. Should one then splash one’s eyes with puddle
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is wearing flat shoes which invariably threaten to fall apart. It does not help
that we are sweating like pigs with no towel at hand, that the path is steep
and dotted with sharp rocks. It takes us forty or so minutes to reach the two
shrines, Sannomiyagu and Ushiogu. The view of lake Biwa is spectacular and for
it alone the climb was worth it. We sit down on the steps and take a few panoramic
photos. At one moment the breeze carries a strong herbal fragrance over to our
nostrils, so strong in fact that for a second I think I have just entered an essential oils store!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "king";"> Hachioji
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<span style="font-family: "king";">We climb a few more steps to pay
respects to a famous Great Golden Rock situated between the two buildings. The
rock derives its name from the fact that the sunlight is reflected off it on
sunny mornings. The rock is even mentioned in the Kojiki, the oldest written record
of Japanese history. I imagine the golden sun reflection must be quite a sight.
If I ever decide to come back here on some sunny day, it will only be me in full
hiking gear, and with plenty of water!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "king";">It is time to walk back downhill. Y.
wishes she had a pair of wings to put on then glide back to the lower altitudes!
Walking, or more accurately, staggering toward the shrine exit we pass the three
stone bridges we saw earlier on the map. Why are they so close to each other? Y. and I venture
a few guesses. Perhaps they were made to serve different social stratums: one
for nobility, one for priests, one for peasants. Or were they built for
aesthetic effect, as a kind of medieval take on conceptual art installation? The
truth, we later find out, is more prosaic than that. After Oda Nobunaga’s army
burnt the shrine around 1571, the new buildings were erected soon after. The
rebuild included old wooden bridges, which were replaced by the fireproof stone
ones, which stand to this day. But why <i>three</i>
bridges? The more the merrier, we dare presume.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">This year typhoons in Kyoto are few and far between. Once
they do arrive though, their force feels more severe and more lethal than in
the previous years. Or so it seems. Of course my personal perception could be false.
I can therefore only give some weight to my apprehensions by presenting a
small, yet telling, inventory of things broken, displaced or damaged in and
around the house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">The last typhoon from a couple of weeks ago (<i>Sanvu</i>, early September, wind speeds up
to 150km/hour) managed to blow away a cover sheet off my scooter, detach an antenna
from the rooftop, and even blow my letterbox nameplate out of its slot! Later I
wondered about the final destination of these items. This being a suburban
residential area they could have easily shown up at a neighbour’s doorstep.
Just as plausibly, any of them could have reached and landed on Midoroga pond, situated
a short walk to the northeast, then floated for a bit until they sank to its dark
green bottom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">Today’s typhoon, which goes under the global name of <i>Talim</i> (interestingly, the vast majority
of Japanese are not aware of this term, here they simply give typhoons numbers
in chronological order) is, once again, accompanied by extremely violent wind
gusts (measured at 175km/hr). Metal shutters are rattling, various doors inside
the house shaking and grumbling as though lost souls are desperately trying to
break though. When I step outside to inspect the situation in the backyard, I
find a laundry pole has been kicked from its prop to a lower one, as if demoted
to a lower rank. I find a pair of slippers rearranged by wind to a sort of X-shape:
Communist hammer & sickle springs to mind. It makes me think how easily we
get used to objects sitting in their spots, as if their peculiar locations were
set in stone. How easily we forget that furniture can actually be moved around!
Let’s find a different niche for the floor lamp. Let’s move the desk to the middle
of the room! Rearrange the order of forks and knives. Let’s refresh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">In the late afternoon I take a stroll before the rain arrives.
Above Midoroga pond the clouds are fifty shades of grey indeed, moving along
with amazing pace. My eye picks a smallish one and follows, trying to estimate its
speed. I’d say, on a par with a light bomber aircraft. I notice that ducks and
coots, normally to be seen sailing near the shore, are out of eyeshot. In place
of them, as it were, is a sizeable piece of sod, a turf of high grass with a
bunch of yellow wildflowers sprung on top. It looks the tiniest island in the world.
Besides, it is actually drifting! At first, a little to the east. A short
pause. Then back, to the west. Very slowly. A pause. Then off again, northwards.
A minor spectacle!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">All day long I have not spoken to a single person, bar a man
on the motor scooter. He trundles into a narrow side street as I walk from the
opposite direction. The scooterist stops, looks at his mobile phone then checks
whatever is on the screen against the buildings in front of him. Lost. I walk
up and ask if he needs help. He is short-bearded, lean, in his fifties. A white
helmet and black-rimmed glasses, are they supposed to add a touch of intellect?
‘Have you seen this house before?’ he asks with a thick French accent (isn’t
French accent always thick?), showing me the photo. I reply in the negative, add
he could possibly try the street along the pond. Polite smiles on both sides,
and good luck to him. I recall the bloke a couple of hours later when the storm
turns crazy. Very unwise of him to be riding a moped in this weather. How does
he get back home? Or does he? I worry a bit about him, my sole interlocutor
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<span style="font-family: King;">It is close to midnight as I am writing this. The wind and
rain are slowly subsiding. I shall to bed soon, too dark and wet for any kind
of inspection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: King;">ps. The morning aftermath: in the garden a terracotta pot containing
a large heavy shrub overturned; rubbish bins overturned; broken-off tree branches
in the street; piles upon piles of leaves everywhere (where did I put that
broom again?); crisp air and a spotless sky. I can live with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-50384833231990681192016-05-06T21:23:00.001+09:002016-05-06T21:25:09.211+09:00Two Faces of Our City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today, on May 1<sup>st</sup>, I went out on scooter hoping
to locate workers’ gathering or a political rally of some kind. My expectations
were based on witnessing a May Day demo five years ago (report <a href="http://kyotocacti.blogspot.jp/2011/05/to-all-of-you-workers.html" target="_blank">here</a>) that
consisted of a rather well-behaved procession of some hundred chanting
protesters walking in orderly fashion down Horikawa street. After all, they
were allowed a single street lane at the same time obeying the usual pedestrian
rules including waiting at traffic lights. Shepherded by the police uniform, the
parade was nevertheless intent on drowning out the passing traffic, the
marchers shouting on top of their voices. </div>
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Today, alas, they were hard to come by. After vainly riding
up and down Horikawa and the adjacent streets for some time, I gave it up.
‘Well, so much for labour solidarity’, I mumbled to myself. Disappointed, I
turned onto Oike street and headed east. Good thing I did, because once I
reached the City Hall there it was, your proper workers demo – the crowds, the
placards, chants, flags, whistles, megaphones. The place wasn’t exactly on
fire, more like simmering in warm spring sunshine. At least it seemed livelier
than what I remember from five years ago. </div>
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After a good quarter of an hour of incessant slogan-yelling
and air-punching fists, it was getting a bit monotonous. Arms getting tired too.
Thankfully the proceedings took a sprightly turn. Someone from the organizing
committee (local JCP?) told the crowds to form a file and start tripping and skipping
about the tarmac, which looked a lot like a Dragon Dance, albeit a dragon up in
years. Gradually the chanting procession snaked its way toward the entrance
steps to the City Hall where the smiling committee stood waving – too many
marchers to shake hands with everyone. </div>
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What is strikingly different between a Japanese demo and
say, one held this year in France or Turkey, is its non-threatening, almost celebratory
nature. In Europe there was a lot of hatred, violence, crushed skulls and
burning vehicles. In Kyoto, if there is hatred and dissatisfaction – and there
must be otherwise there would be no protest – these are not overtly expressed. Are
Japanese aware perhaps that violence or no violence, at the end of the day
nothing will change? Is their ‘predicament’ worth risking neck for? Probably
not. </div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJCWuz9g1DQ" target="_blank">May Day Kyoto Demos 2016</a><br />
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The last jumping member had been waved off, the committee
disbanded, the Dragon fell to pieces. The crowds did not disperse though.
Perhaps they were taking a well-deserved break before marching on south toward
Kyoto station? Myself, I was delighted to have found my demo after all, and was
reminded of that age-old truth: good things happen when you least expect them. </div>
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Filled up with revolutionary sentiments, I suddenly wished
for different, more peaceful environs. I rode northeast and picked Enkō-ji temple
at the foothills of Mt. Hiei. Just what the doctor ordered. The temple grounds are
the polar opposite of the City Hall’s simmering stage. The protest pulled you
in and you wanted to be a part of the crowd, the next person your ‘brother in
arms’. At Enkō-ji a different game. All you really want is to be left alone; to
give in to your senses; to hear yourself breathing.</div>
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The demo was about a need for change, be it social,
political etc. The self-respecting air of Enkō-ji exudes resistance to change,
a sense of fixedness. The only threat to status-quo is of an evolutionary kind,
if that: young bamboo shoots springing up here and there in the shadow of their
elderly cousins, or the bullfrog’s murderous bellow, only underline the permanence
of things. </div>
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And so, today I have been a guest in two worlds, worlds that
could not be more different. And no matter how hard I tried to find some kind
of meaningful connection between them, I failed. There is no connection here,
apart from physical proximity. Then there is the realization that it is
possible to trespass on both worlds in a short space of time, and belong to both.
Or more accurately, belong to neither.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It takes three minutes on foot from where I live to reach
the south-western tip of Midorogaike pond – a modestly sized body of stagnant water,
high moorland and a few islets of floating peat. The information board by the
gravel footpath says, in both Japanese and English, the lake covers some 9
hectares with a circumference of about 1.5 km. About one third of the lake is
made up of floating peat bog, which occupies the central part of the lake,
itself practically unreachable. <span style="line-height: 115%;">Apart
from a couple of battered wooden dinghies buried in quagmire, as if to warn an
adventurer as to the likely outcome of their potential exploit, there are no boats
or vessels on hand.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One also learns from the info board that the lake is very
unusual in Western Japan as it sustains a cool temperate zone, similar to upper
marshland in the north-eastern part of the country. This means the lake is home
to some rare aquatic plant colonies, as well as animal creatures, such as a
subspecies of large hoverfly, or a diving bell spider (the only spider species
known to live entirely underwater). At the same time, plants and insects
typical of a warm temperate zone, are also in attendance: common reed, Japanese
diving beetle, or the giant bullfrog – one unwelcome import from America. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Due to these peculiar features the lake’s plant community
was designated as a national natural treasure back in 1927, the designation
altered in 1988 to include the animals as well. Fascinating, I think to myself,
as I walk eastward along the southern shore, secretly hoping a creature would
crop up and pose for a late evening photocall. The footpath this side of the
lake is well-lit by street lamps, so much so that the light spreads some
distance making it possible to make out water lilies resting on dark-green scum,
and even a couple of ducks mucking about in the shallows (there is a long and
winding path on the pond’s surface which ducks have ploughed for their own
passage through scum).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am struck how exceptionally still it is around here. Nothing
stirs. And when something does move, like a cluster of reeds swaying, or an occasional
duck or carp rippling the surface, they only add to the sense of pervasive
stillness. It is exactly this subdued, lusterless quietude that lends the lake the
air of mystery and eeriness it is so infamous for. Rather than the pond’s extraordinary
aquatic features, Kyotoites have known Midorogaike for its notorious image of
one being haunted by ghosts. This fact alone puts the lake on the tourist map
of places best avoided.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In local folklore spooky stories abound, old and new. Ask
any Kyotoite about the pond and the odds are they will come up with a ghost
tale of some kind. The oft repeated one goes something like this. A Kyoto cab
driver picks up a passenger, a woman possibly in her late fifties. As the car
approaches Mi<span style="font-family: inherit;">d</span>orogaike, the cabby turns back to speak to the woman. Lo and
behold, she has vanished. All the driver sees is a damp blotch on the seat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another tale has a local resident who, while taking a stroll
by the lake, comes across a pile of clothes discarded on the ground. At first she
thinks it rude manners. Then a thought creeps in: could this be a hint of a
suicide? As she does not immediately see any shoes, she instinctively starts
looking for a pair (Japanese are expected to be considerate enough to remove
footwear before taking own life). She is saddened, however, to discover a
floating body instead. Once the police have put the case to bed, the woman returns
home only to find a pair of shoes by her front door, filled with water.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am
now standing at the south-western corner of the pond. Here the gravel path
ends. For the adventurous soul there is a mud path that leads up the eastern
shore through the forest. As I weigh up my options, the screech of an eagle-owl
pierces the air. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A windless valley:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>over the peat bog</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>a disconsolate screech</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I walk home wondering if the horror tales about Midorogaike
have been invented on purpose, with one thing in mind: to keep people away from
the lake so as to preserve its unique habitat. Who knows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Few days later I revisit the pond. This time I foot it along
the east shore, a soft path of peat and clay. It leads through the woods, all
the time close to water. At some places the path turns very soft, almost gooey,
and if one is not careful one might slide straight down into the lake. The
mostly secondary forest is dominated by Japanese red pine and deciduous oak
trees that go by the name of <i>bao li</i>.
Some trees produce beautifully semi-transparent resin that stretches down from
tree barks, looking like a Christmas ornament, or an icicle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After about a hundred meters into the forest the path
abruptly ends, and with some sadness I realize that it is impossible to walk
the whole of lake’s perimeter. The woods being too dense to continue (the
thought of coming back with a machete crosses my mind), I start trudging back
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Post scriptum</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKknKx3dSC4mMRMyrYpXuBeESsjz05yYmI0SgOSkebQpNksLkMH-7FBba3IVeELm-rm65SlAz2iUsVGXL-LWDs5YEz019qIO7GP61s4I73QOFpSYgQMOmxOfaQ-SBMXdBGpNU1xtkk24Q/s1600/P1000843+willow.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKknKx3dSC4mMRMyrYpXuBeESsjz05yYmI0SgOSkebQpNksLkMH-7FBba3IVeELm-rm65SlAz2iUsVGXL-LWDs5YEz019qIO7GP61s4I73QOFpSYgQMOmxOfaQ-SBMXdBGpNU1xtkk24Q/s400/P1000843+willow.JPG" width="265" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been meaning to post my blog entry on Midorogaike for
a few days now, yet never got round to it. In the meantime I decided to pay the
lake another visit – for no particular reason. I have just got back home from
tonight’s outing. It is close to midnight. I am sitting in my room, still
trembling with awe and astonishment at what has just taken place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am walking down a narrow street, approaching the lake’s southern
shore. The rain drizzling, the full moon peeking through the fast moving
clouds. I barely step onto the gravel that borders the shore, when out of
darkness a hefty, four-legged creature is running in my direction. I freeze. In
a split second I think it a mythical beast that has come to take my soul away. As
the eyes adjust I am able to detect the beast: a massive stag with splendid
antlers, most likely frightened by hearing my footsteps. Now he is charging
just past me, hollow thuds echoing across the valley. It misses me by a meter
or two, and disappears up the familiar forest path on the eastern shore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Fast approaching</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>a pair of antlers –</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I stand powerless</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am sitting in my room, trying to decipher my instinctive
response during the close encounter. It wasn’t fear, that is for sure. It was
closer to total astonishment, and acceptance. Acceptance of fate. Of whatever
the stars had in store for me. I was ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">A Day in
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Reap us!</i> <i>Reap us!</i> plead the rice ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">on the golden fields of Oharu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A man with a determined face </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">how to cut stalk with a hand sickle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">his own ink-marked with a kanji.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A short woman who could be his mum</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">is bundling the rice straw into sheaves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">smiling authoritatively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>A single sentence </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and you know who is in charge here</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You and half a dozen others </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">‘Like you’ve just caught a giant fish!’</span></div>
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-2757818063368388212013-12-26T23:01:00.001+09:002013-12-26T23:01:48.528+09:00Animal Metaphors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;">Here are two 'extended' animal metaphors I have come across recently. The first comes from a BBC4 documentary on one of the most unique singers/songwriters ever, Robert Wyatt. The man himself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>As far as I am concerned, I am dreaming all the time. The only difference is that I come up for daylight and other people the way a whale has to come up for air. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">cf: Have you heard of the term 'wyatting'? It's a verb. It means 'to play unusual tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers'. It sounds democratic enough to me. People complain of musical snobbishness of those who practice wyatting. But the complaints could be turned the other way. By the same token those 'snobs' have a right to complain, say of loud rap music that keeps them away from pubs. So, democratically, should a jukebox contain Brian Eno it is only fair that Brian Eno plays, provided someone is willing to slot a coin in the machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The second metaphor is by another Robert, R. Frost. This extract is taken from his 1923 interview for the New York Times Book Review, entitled 'We Seem to Lack the Courage to Be Ourselves'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Men have told me, and perhaps they are right, that I have no 'straddle'. That is the term they use: I have no straddle. That means that I cannot spread out far enough to live in filth and write in the treetops. I can't. Perhaps it is because I am so ordinary. I like the middle way, as I like to talk to the man who walks the middle way with me. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I have given thought to this business of straddling, and there's always seemed to me to be something wrong with it, something tricky. I see a man riding two horses, one foot on the back of one horse, one foot on the other. One horse pulls one away, the other a second. His straddle is wide, Heaven help him, but it seems to me that before long it's going to hurt him. It isn't the natural way, the normal way, the powerful way to ride. It's a trick.</i></span><br />
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inspection most turned out to be certificates of participation to various
conferences and seminars. Bit of a letdown. Then there were these porcelain
figurines inside the white glass cabinet depicting various scenes from a dental
room (one had a patient spread horizontally surrounded by a doctor, an
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papers, checking files, typing, popping in behind the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operatory</i> door. Once the room emptied of other patients it was our
cue to strike a small talk. She led the way. Told how she and doc had been
married for aeons, how the two of them had been regular globetrotters, how they
just got back from Germany where they bought those figurines, how it took her the
best part of a day to decorate the tree (it was the early days – first week of
December – but there you go, the tree pregnant with bluish baubles to match the
tinsel and dangling toy bears), how there were two more trees inside the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Operatory</i>, how the hubby was
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trees, each more fetching than the other. ‘Yes, this one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> my favourite, definitely’, I said for each. I was looking
forward to exchanging words with the boss. The chief globetrotter being a man
of the world and all. Spoke good English too, according to wife. Alas, the very
man behind the surgical mask who treated me that evening was to remain just
that – a man behind the surgical mask. Not only did I not speak to him, I never
got to see his face either. When he saw me his mask slightly rose around the
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I have dozed off? Hard to imagine, what with my mouth open and dribbling, a
pretty assistant vacuuming the dribble, the noise, the instruments all over my mouth,
the light in my eyes. They put a cloth over my eyes. The world went dim for a minute,
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proper, fully fledged dream. But I did see images, of that I am sure. Images random,
desultory, erratic, airborne, suspended by wires like marionettes: a
Montgolfier balloon on fire; a giant dragonfly by a volcanic river; a Noh mask
whispering garbled admonishments; the sun disc; someone pulling a dead fish out
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escorted me out. ‘So, anything I should be worried about?’ ‘No, not really.’ I
leaned toward her. ‘Say, is there anything in that room that might make people have…
visions?’ She stared. I tried to clarify: ‘I mean, is it possible that a person
might fall asleep on that chair? You know, doze off?’ Her face relaxed. ‘Oh. I guess
so. Did you?’ ‘I could have. I am not sure though’. ‘Well’, she chirped, ‘it
must be difficult to sleep while your tooth is being pulled out.’ God! I
frantically started tonguing about the mouth, feeling for gaps. Nothing.
Everything seemed in place. Then it struck me: I did not feel any pain. No
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">© Branko Manojlovic, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">image: Robert Sudlow, <i>Dental Chair in the Woods</i> (http://nlmstudio.wordpress.com/category/miscellaneous)</span></div>
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-29075220259111192682013-03-14T11:59:00.001+09:002013-03-14T11:59:51.732+09:00Social Class 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today started with a touch of innocence when I lifted the window blinds. There was a boy in the street with his mum, both waving at the passing rubbish collectors (Japanese equivalent of bin-men) who in turn waved heartily back. Such an endearing sight, as if straight from the tacky alleys of Disneyland. Except this was a show of a child’s genuine wonder. And no wonder these men in pastel-green uniforms turned at once dignified and impassioned. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such scene would be harder to imagine in the gritty environs of, say, any impoverished country in Asia. North Korea would be an obvious exception, where I imagine schoolkids are told to wave red flags and sing songs of praise as the proud rubbish collectors cruise the streets, picking whatever meagre waste there is to pick. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The weather was absolutely gorgeous today – crisp, sunny, the air feather-light. At about 2 pm I decided to make my move. I got on a bike and cycled to downtown Kyoto. I had previously made a tentative plan to pay a visit to <a href="http://www.3-gai.com/">this</a> particular art gallery, based on their poster which showed a urban scene from an unidentified country, presumably in the southeast Asia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The gallery was somewhat difficult to locate as it was tucked in on the third floor of a nondescript block of flats – simply a flat converted into a gallery space. I opened the door without knocking. There was nobody inside apart from a woman at a desk behind a sort of folding screen (she was constantly on the phone during my 10-minute visit). When I entered she protruded her head from behind the screen and we smiled in acknowledgement. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The installation itself consisted of a 3-minute video loop projection (shot by a car-cam) and about a dozen of photograph prints depicting peopled cityscapes. Those taken on the streets of Vietnam (presumably Hanoi, the Old Quarter) were the most striking. The author, John Einarsen, is partial to blue-collar folks going about their daily routine – be it twiddling thumbs at a bird shop, washing pots and plastic potties, or revolving pieces of meat on a skewer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Each (neatly framed) print actually carries a price tag of ¥20.000, that’s about €200. That these ‘photographic items’ are on sale is hardly surprising in our age of global commercialism. I imagined what sort of people would want to buy prints of the impoverished metropolitan ordinariness. The same middleclass philistine, I thought, who finds the aesthetic value in the exoticism of the under-privileged. The same sick middleclass kind who would hang these photos on their bedroom wall to glance at while having their middleclass shag in their middleclass comfy beds. That’s who, I thought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And yet, to the casual observer like myself, these scenes also deliver a touch of colour, or at least the kind of surreal absurdity almost exclusive to the poorest stratum of any society. On one photo there is an untieable knot of umpteen electric and telephone wires that can be tolerated only by the ‘underclass’ and that makes you think how on earth they were put up there in the first place. On another there is a man’s head sticking out of a house tarpaulin cover and under him a street vendor with hands in his pockets and a body posture of someone who couldn’t care less. On another there is a cat trapped in a birdcage. On another there is laundry drying on a clothes line sponging up the smoke from a grilled meat takeaway underneath. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This kind of pathos evokes Italian and Yugoslav social satire films from the 60’s and 70’s. Directors like Fellini, Pasolini, Aleksandar Petrović, early Kusturica. But one particular film sprang to mind while I was at the gallery, that by Ettore Scola: ‘Brutti, sporchi e cattivi’ a.k.a. ‘Ugly, Dirty and Bad’ (1976). This was one of my favourites back in my formative years – I remember how we used to act out the whole scenes by heart. This synopsis from IMDB sums it up pretty well: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is only rarely that the
bothy songs essay a direct sociological comment and when the attempt is made,
the result is not usually a happy one. The Working Chap is reminiscent of the
style found in the writings of the 'fustian philosophers' who helped to pioneer
the British socialist movement, "The puir needle-woman on the wa' . . .''
mentioned in the second verse, is a reference to the once ubiquitous daguerretype
inspired by Thomas Hood's '<i>The Song of the Shirt’. </i></span><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">http://ingeb.org/songs/imaworki.html</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“By far
the most popular of all the examples of social themes in Victorian painting was
the seamstress. Fostered by articles in newspapers and in periodicals,
encouraged by attention in parliamentary reports, it received its greatest
impetus from a literary source. In December 1843, Thomas Hood’s <em>The Song of the Shirt</em>
was published …in…<em>Punch</em>.
Overnight both the poem and the magazine became a sensation. Its publication is
said to have trebled the circulation of the magazine…Quoted by nearly every
paper (beginning with <em>The
Times</em>), printed as catchpennies, set to music, dramatized by Mark
Lemon (the editor of<em> Punch</em>),
even printed on handkerchiefs, <em>The
Song of the Shirt </em>soon echoed from the ranks of every social class.
Hood’s lines became an enduring symbol for the Victorian populace generally and
for reformers, painters, and illustrators specifically…. </span></span><br />
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October 1843, <em>The Times</em> noted:
Sometimes as many as five or six young girls occupy one small room in which
they work and sleep and take their meals in common, plying their needles from
morn to night…The wretched shirtmakers… cannot obtain a subsistence by the
starving wages allowed them.’ Thus, Redgrave and those following his example
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the harsh actualities of the seamstress’s existence and by focusing attention
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-47142686538251177152012-10-29T01:49:00.001+09:002012-10-29T01:49:49.327+09:00Turbulence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My flight from Rome to Osaka back in March was not all dozing, chomping away reheated meals and teetering inside a minuscule toilet, because I also managed to watch a couple of really interesting flicks. The first one was ‘Il Mundial Dimenticato a.k.a. The Lost World Cup’, a documentary on that overlooked, delightfully melodramatic football tournament that took place in Patagonia in 1942 and has subsequently been forgotten by everyone. More on that some other time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today I want to tell you about the impossibly titled <i>Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?</i>, a.k.a. ‘Will Our Heroes Succeed in Finding Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?’ (Ettore Scola, 1968). How this little gem of a movie ended up on the airbus movie list is beyond me, and boy am I glad that it did. Because it really is a gem of a <i>commedia all’italiana</i> sort: not only did it ironically ‘inaugurate in Italy a brief vogue of kilometric titles’ but the film is a rare winner with its imaginative editing, vibrant script, and as a worthy dip into the philosophical waters concerning various aspects of the modern human condition. Plus it is beguilingly funny. Plus its decidedly Conrad-esque closing scene has to be one of the most poignant in European movie history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the side of mediocre civility stands Fausto (Alberto Sordi), a successful and bored magazine editor who embarks on a voyage to Africa in order to seek out his mysteriously long-lost brother-in-law, a Kurz-like character Titino (Nino Manfredi). Titino is everything Fausto is not, or possibly yearns to be: courageous, cunning, rebellious, charismatic, enigmatic, and therefore free. But something more organic, more fundamental is at stake here. Fausto for his part, is not without qualities, and yet he is so conditioned by his predicament in this increasingly complex modernity that in the end he can only sigh and helplessly exclaim: <i>I don’t know. I’m not thinking clearly</i>. Rarely has the familiar statement carried such weight as at the end of this movie. Have a look at the ultimate scene in which our heroes are about to catch a boat that would take them back to civilization. But all is not as it seems. Note the smart intercutting between the aborigines and the urban chant: the identical arm movements, albeit one exuding vigour the other vacuity. </span></span><br />
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-58932093015190855082012-10-07T21:50:00.001+09:002012-10-07T21:55:09.230+09:00Kyoto Postcards from the Edge (p.1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This <span style="font-size: small;">t</span>ree at Nijo castle. I regularly pass this spot on pushbike, and today noticed something was different. Mysteriously broken. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kyoto local elections. This photo was actually taken earlier this year, and today I saw another canvassing van, only much larger. <i>Homo politicus</i> never sleeps. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Train delays attributed to jishin-jikko (an accident involving humans) are rather commonplace in Japan, especially on JR line - the suicide favourite. Sometimes it is a drunk or someone careless ending up on the railway tracks. The official English explanation manages to sound both odd and rather disturbing. Taken last week.</span></span><br />
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brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-23390339008404277722012-09-14T17:43:00.000+09:002012-09-15T14:49:44.909+09:00Now and Then<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Quintus Curtius Rufus, a Roman historian (1<sup>st</sup> c. AD)
wrote on Alexander the Great and his troubled, at least initially, founding of the
city of Alexandria in Egypt: ‘There is a report, that after the king had
completed the Macedonian custom of marking out the circular boundary for the
future city-walls with barley-meal, flocks of birds flew down and fed on the
barley’. Driving through the Republic
of Macedonia this summer I
wondered if the road builders of the recently-fledged country followed in the
great man’s footsteps. Because the long stretches along the ‘Aleksandar
Makedonski’ motorway are completely unmarked: no lines of any kind or colour.
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<span style="font-size: small;">Driving along the ‘motorway’, dotted with bumps and holes of
all shape and size, can be a pretty scary experience, especially at night, the
road being unlit save for your car’s headlights and, if lucky, moonlight. That
was on the way to Greece,
north-south direction. On the way back some nine days later, south-to-north, we
knew better and drove in broad daylight. But the persistence of bumps and holes
proved too much and eventually steered us off the main highway and onto the
local ‘E-roads’, which proved to be – surprise, surprise – in no better state.
Only when we got on the very local, virtually vehicle-less 125a, leading through
beautiful landscapes along the Pčinja river, only then did we finally open all
four windows and let in the warm summer air, scented by sundry wild flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the Macedonia-Serbian border crossing we were the only
customers. Which must be why it took ages both for the Macedonian and the
Serbian boys in blue to let us through after giving our passports some
seriously close scrutiny. The Pelince border crossing must be one of the most
romantic (if that is a suitable word for a border crossing): right in the gully, surrounded by lush forests
and so, so quiet, only birdsong and the humming of river is heard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A ten-minute drive past the border takes you to the St Prohor
Pčinjski Orthodox monastery, it being the real clincher behind our original detour.
The monastic complex is beautifully arranged, comprised of the St Prohor Church
and the magnificent <i>konak</i>, the
imposing residential building, sporting a unique architectural style. The place
was abuzz with workers, busy with all sorts of repairs and adjustments – you
could see something positive was taking place. A further proof for the care and
concern for its surroundings was this wooden notice board (see if you can
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<span style="font-size: small;">St Prohor’s life story is a
story of a devout and a dedicated anchorite. According to the apparently
extensive and well-preserved hagiography, Prohor was born in the first half of
the 11<sup>th</sup> century, into a wealthy and educated family. One day, elated
upon hearing Matthew’s ‘<span class="f">He that loveth father or mother more than
me is not worthy of me’, Prohor abandoned what remaining shreds of secularity
were still fettering him, and left for the high hills, never to return. The next thirty
two years (some sources say much longer) he spent living in a small cave with the
mountain beasts, sleeping on the bare rock, feeding on wild fruits and grass,
drinking water from the mountain spring, never setting eyes on a living human soul.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="f">Well, almost never. The legend goes that one
day a hunter hard on the heels of an injured doe, which has just found a
shelter with Prohor, comes across the old man, is immediately startled and
starts backing off. Prohor calls out to him and the two begin conversing. The
hunter turns out to be a Byzantine military aristocrat Diogenes (which Prohor
somehow already knew) and eventually Prohor prophesies Diogenes is to become the future emperor of Byzantium. Prohor also pledges Diogenes that once he becomes a king, he should duly
remember the old hermit’s prophesy. </span></span></div>
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has a dream in which the old prophet admonishes him with words: ‘Why, great
Diogenes, have you forgotten your old garb and me the old hermit? Make an
effort and build me at least a small temple where I could pray to God until my
final days’. The Emperor, frightened, immediately sets off to the north Macedonian
mountains to try and find Prohor. After many days of fruitless search, Prohor reappears
in Diogenes’ dream and tells him to go to Mount Kozjak and look for a cave
above which a white eagle soars, after which Diogenes finally finds the cave
and in it the old man’s remains, lying intact and quite unspoiled. On the spot Diogenes
builds a small church dedicated to St Luke and further down, at the Pčinja
riverbank, another, a more imposing one, where St Prohor’s relics remain to
this day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="f">Incidentally, Diogenes’ own fate as an emperor
turned out to be a sort of royal martyrdom in its own right. This from
Wikipedia:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">During his reign [Diogenes] was determined
to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and stop Turkish incursions into
the Byzantine Empire, but in 1071 he was captured and his army routed at the Battle
of Manzikert<span class="f">, lead by the Sultan Alp Arslan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[…] According to a number of
Byzantine historians… Arslan at first had difficulty believing the dusty and
tattered warrior brought before him was the Roman Emperor. He then stepped down
from his seat and placed his foot on Romanos' neck. But after this sign of
ritual humiliation, Arslan raised Romanos from the ground, and ordered him to
be treated like a king. From then on he treated him with extreme kindness,
never saying a cruel word to him in the Emperor's eight-day stay in his camp,<sup>
</sup>and then released him in exchange for a treaty and the promise of a hefty
ransom.</span></div>
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opposition faction scheming against Romanos IV decided to exploit the
situation. While still captive [Romanos] was overthrown in a palace coup, and
when released he was quickly defeated by the army led by one Andronikos Doukas.
Pursued by Andronikos, [Romanos IV] was eventually forced to surrender by the
garrison at Adana
upon receiving assurances of his personal safety. Before leaving the fortress,
he collected all the money he could lay his hands on and sent it to the Sultan
as proof of his good faith, along with a message: "As emperor, I promised
you a ransom of a million and a half. Dethroned, and about to become dependent
upon others, I send you all I possess as proof of my gratitude".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Andronikos stipulated that
Diogenes’ life would be spared if he resigned the purple and retired into a
monastery. Romanos agreed, and this agreement was ratified at Constantinople.<sup>
</sup>However, John Doukas reneged on the agreement, and sent men to have
Romanos cruelly blinded on June 29, 1072, before sending him into exile to Prote
in the Sea of Marmara. Without medical assistance, his wound became infected,
and he soon endured a painfully lingering death.<sup> </sup>The final insult
was given a few days before his death, when Romanos received a letter from
Michael Psellos, congratulating him on the loss of his eyes. He finally died,
praying for the forgiveness of his sins, and his wife Eudokia was permitted to
honour his remains with a magnificent funeral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="f">Now, all these machinations have a familiar ring
to it. Have the successive governments on the Balkan
peninsula in recent history not been their own worst enemies? Have
they not been vying for power under any excuse and at any price? Have they not
been pursuing their own fat interests instead of ensuring the prosperity of
their own citizens? Has this blatant disregard not led many Balkan countries to
an economic as well as spiritual cesspit? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="f">As for the spirituality and the church, well,
look at Prohor’s shining example and then look at the Orthodox elite in Greece, Serbia,
Russia
today. In Russia,
the Church has acted as Putin’s bodyguard, to paraphrase Hitchens. The highly
privileged orders of Greek and Serbian monks are exempt from tax, drive expensive
cars, talk on mobiles, and bicker over property and funds. One recent example:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
around 2,600 monks residing at the Vatopaidi monastery in Mount Athos defied
the Greek Ministry of Finance last year when it required the so-called
autonomous territory pay property taxes on its commercial property. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mount
Athos, a 300 km2 peninsula in Greece,
is off limits to women and is exempt from paying VAT. Its mandate prohibits
“heterodox or schismatics to live on the Holy Mountain”
and states its elected Abbot “must not have been convicted of malversation of
monastic property.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its
chief operator, Abbot Ephraim, is charged with money laundering and
embezzlement in a land swap that saw valuable state land traded for less
valuable property held by Vatopaidi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Hellenic court handed him a six-month suspended sentence in February 2012. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another
monk also took the blame, as well as a former judge from the area in northern Greece where
the land swaps took place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ephraim,
who posted €300,000 bail, was released after four months of detention in
Korydallos prison. The former abbot is now residing at the monastery and is not
allowed to leave Mount Athos.</span></div>
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Greek edition of the International Herald Tribune reported that Ephraim called
his conditional release "a miracle of the Virgin."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i>http://euobserver.com/economic/116962</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today K. and I come to a conclusion that dental floss is an
amazing invention. She made this excellent Chinese soup with veggies and scallop,
the latter of which has shredded itself during the cooking process, and many of
the said shreds eventually found new home between my teeth. K. asks who
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<span style="font-size: small;">Did you know that first dental floss goes as far back as
early 19<sup>th</sup> century? In 1815 a dentist from New Orleans recommended his patients should
clean teeth with silk floss. It took some 60 years for it to be patented. We’ve
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<span style="font-size: small;">Q: Which character in <i>Ulysses</i>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“He took a reel of dental floss from his waistcoat pocket
and, breaking off a piece, twanged it smartly between two and two of his
resonant unwashed teeth.” (p. 107)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Must stop singing arias in the loo while brushing teeth. This
evening my bass shook up the windows upstairs, apparently ('His voice is so deep it provided the lining for his shoes' - Matthew Caley) . Upstairs, K.
couldn’t hear the TV. No big deal, with the Sex & the City banalities on.
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it hard </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">to follow a cursor hopping
right to left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">This morning I watched
the sun yawn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I must have watched too
long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">My eyes clank like a shut
blind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I can see now a dusty-white
kimono</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">dancing, fading in
the sun.</span></div>
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</div>brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-1401396489950760622012-05-19T11:18:00.000+09:002012-05-19T11:18:44.664+09:00The Annular Eclipse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">is just around the corner. It is a sort of eclipse whereby
the moon completely blocks out the sun save for the outer ring of light. In Japan it is
scheduled for the morning hours of May 21<sup>st</sup>, Eastern Time (detailed
info with huge maps <a href="http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Gallery/Pages/Annular_solar_eclipse_of_2012_May_20.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Folks, do make an effort and get off your bums, draw
those bedroom curtains and let the sunshine in. The last such event apparently
occurred 173 years ago! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Despite the gloomy weather forecast which predicts massive
clouds, I am readying myself for the event. As you can gather from fig.1, I procured
me the requisite equipment, which consists of a dark plastic (?) eye-patch
supposedly designed to protect the retina. This was no mean feat since Japan
has been in a grip of eclipse-mania for the past week and goggles, or whatever
they are, are exceptionally hard to come by (got mine at a local 7-Eleven of
all places). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The contraption has been tested in my kitchen. It has an
effect of a blindfold except that once you face a direct source of light – say a
60 watt light bulb – you suddenly notice a tiny shimmery dot in the corner of
your eye, like a sole Pole star in the black firmament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">NB: Since the ‘thing’ would not sit on my nose by itself, I
had to improvise with a piece of string. Now I am all set for my first eclipse
ever – and most likely the last. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Fig. 1</span></div>
</div>brankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10922185348413315417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4898813837948427436.post-34416960235106613732012-05-18T22:31:00.000+09:002012-05-18T22:31:38.814+09:00Eurotrip p.2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">A Naked Document</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">Remember Pisa? Of course you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I slipped into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Museo dell’Opera Duomo</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30bHpplqN6xHnUK1IDY9gCqV_1pLV5IqaeyAToTrc2EVtZNzSfpGRBJQ4qrcBhg0SgP86YCfxzsYPbu0zc6Jv-Isdxnqt287vxBg7cUsxT-dIyl2-SGeNjckn1r2zkTNONHPaX5gNRpY/s1600/DSCF6493+hippogriff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj30bHpplqN6xHnUK1IDY9gCqV_1pLV5IqaeyAToTrc2EVtZNzSfpGRBJQ4qrcBhg0SgP86YCfxzsYPbu0zc6Jv-Isdxnqt287vxBg7cUsxT-dIyl2-SGeNjckn1r2zkTNONHPaX5gNRpY/s640/DSCF6493+hippogriff.jpg" width="265" /></a><span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">while you sipped your
espresso </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">like a heedful
antelope at a waterhole,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">glanced once at a sanguine
Tuscan </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">who’d chat you up to
god’s eternity had he </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">not learned of your
absent companion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">Remember that tiny
photograph</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I had shown you the
previous night, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">of a creature cast in
bronze </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">half eagle half dog,
we thought,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">of an unknown breed? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">Today, I learnt that the
hippogriff </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">had been made hollow</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">to amuse the pre-Islamic
courtiers </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">with its beak’s
jingle-jangle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">although less
plausible theories place it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">in some city’s water
fountain. Anyway,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I am telling you all
this not because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">you’ll latch on to much</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">all curled up, foetus
like,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">or because griffins
are more important</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">than your splitting
headache. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">I do like it though
when your head nods</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">against my rigid,
rounded chest. I like it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">when your trying to
pay attention</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">is a make-believe I am
not talking</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">to the walls
exclusively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">Correct me if I am
wrong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">but now I think, as I
thought then</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">as we sauntered back to
the car </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">past the pastel house
fronts, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">that going separate
ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">in those couple of Pisan
hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Minion Web";">did us both a big-time
favour.</span></div>
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