He was in their bedroom, his and his wife’s. The baby’s white bassinet, still wrapped in its vinyl hood, crouched like a huge insect between the two beds. Bird was dreaming, groaning in protest against the dawn chill. He is standing on a plateau on the western bank of Lake Chad, east of Nigeria. ...
Blake wrote. This aphoristic note is appended to one of his epic poems, together with the following, to me not entirely clear but nonetheless appealing, phrase: “Unorganized Innocence, an Impossibility.” I have returned to the poem in question repeatedly at various times but have always skimmed m...
I awoke from a short, anguished sleep to find my throat painfully swollen and constricted but my drunkenness gone and my brain, which had been enlarged and feverish before my sleep, shrunken to its normal size, leaving a gap into which gloomy depression had wormed its way; my head was hopelessly,...
Eevore, for a change, watched it with me all the way to the end because its music was interesting. It was a kind my ears weren't used to hearing, though, and to me it sounded Indian. As the movie neared the end, there was a scene in which a mysterious child used the power of her eyes to move thre...
I was there because I was Mishima’s translator at the time. Ōe was there because Mishima had invited everyone who mattered that year, from boxers to drag queens, and because Ōe’s vanity and maybe his country-cousin curiosity had drawn him to the lights. I spotted him right away and I watched him ...
Technically speaking, even from the point of view of a novelist, he found Goro’s cinematic approach to telling the story uncommonly interesting and exciting. He even had the feeling that he was discovering a whole new side of Goro’s character—not just as a director but as a human being. This may ...
Koga’s clinic right away. Kizu had wanted to go over to say hello personally, but Dr. Koga was busy tying up loose ends before their move to Shikoku. Ikuo relayed a message from the doctor that he couldn’t spare the time right now and would see Kizu later; holding out hope because he’d said later...