See Nine-Headed Dragon in this journal.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
A Dark and Stormy Night
This journal on the morning of January 27, 2010,
the day of J. D. Salinger’s death, had a post on
Nietzsche and Heraclitus titled “To Apollo.”
Related material:
“… the wind was noisy the way it is in spooky movies
on the night the old slob with the will gets murdered.”
— From the opening sentence of the first Holden Caulfield
story, published in the Collier’s of December 22, 1945
See also Peter Matthiessen on Zen, Salinger and Vedanta,
and Heraclitus in this journal. Some background—
A quotation from Nietzsche…
(Sämtliche Werke, Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden (KSA).
Herausgegeben von Giorgio Colli und Mazzino Montinari.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 1980):
“Nietzsche wrote:
‘Seeing the world as a divine game and beyond good and evil:
in this both the Vedanta and Heraclitus are my predecessors.'”
— KSA vol. 11, page 26, as quoted by André van der Braak
in a chapter from his 2011 book Nietzsche and Zen
(Darin, dass die Welt ein göttliches Spiel sei
und jenseits von Gut und Böse —
habe ich die Vedanta-Philosophie
und Heraklit zum Vorgänger.)
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Yonda* Lies** the Castle***
"…to seek one's true nature is, as one Zen master has said,
'a way to lead you to your long lost home.'"
— Peter Matthiessen, Nine-Headed Dragon River
See also Matthiessen in Dead Viking.
"It's a Barnum and Bailey world…"
* See Jazz Standards.
** "Just as phony as it can be"
*** A search for Jung and "the square inch space"
leads to March 15, 2009, and preceding posts.
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