Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees, trans. Meredith McKinney.
This small volume of excerpts from Essays in Idleness (c. 1329–1331), the work of a Japanese Buddhist monk, is no. 11 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series (2015). This sentence seems to me a Proustian observation.
Also from this volume
“Jotting down at random” : “Beneath a lamp”
Thursday, July 10, 2025
“The boorish and insensitive”
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Not apropos to this post, but wasn’t the info at the bottom of this page previously displayed in a sidebar . . . or am I losing my mind?
ReplyDeleteThanks for catching it. It's an example of the kind of mayhem that results from trying to do this stuff on a phone. I forgot to delete an element that went with the image and that's what pushed everything to the bottom.
ReplyDeleteLet me revise now that I have a little more time to think about it: That's what comes from doing this stuff on a phone.
ReplyDeleteIf my math is right, you shaved 9 words from the original 19 word sentence. Somewhere, Will Strunk is smiling.
ReplyDeleteCould be! Now I want to revise it again: That's what comes of doing this stuff on a phone. I think "of" is more idiomatic.
ReplyDeleteYou and I are simpatico: I have more fun editing and revising than I do with the initial writing. Psychologists must have a term for this.
ReplyDeleteJoy? :)
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