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Dec 26. 1974

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn. Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one - when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there - However well phrased your poetry may be if your feeling is not natural - if the object and yourself are separate - then your poetry is not true proetry but merely your subjective counterfeit.

Basho

(1644-94)

Kori Nigabu

Ice tastes bitter

Enso ga nodo o

In the mouth of a sewer rat

Uruoseri

Quenching his thirst

Basho

Jan 8. 75

61

(Henry) "James "homoeroticism" was too obviously sublimated in his furious industry"

Alfred Kagin[?]

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

p28 - McLuhan - Culture is our Business

The Master of Go-Kawalata - Knopf 1972 p30-31

I had written of the long white hair in the left eybrow. In my pictures of the dead face, however, the right eyebrow was the thicker. It hardly seemed likely that the right eyebrow had suddenly begun to grow after his death. And had he really had such long eyebrows? One might have concluded that the camera was exaggerating, but probably it had told the truth.

I need not have been so apprehensive. My contax had a Sonner 1.5 lens. It had