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Friday, December 24

An ancient pond
A frog jumps in
Plop!
-- Basho (1644-94)

"In addition to being the supreme artist of haiku and renga, Basho wrote haibun, brief prose-and-poetry travelogues such as Oku-no-hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Far North; 1689; Eng. trans., 1974), that are absolutely nonpareil in the literature of the world."

Q: Which is better: reading about Basho or being Basho? A: Plop!

posted by Brent, 1:42:00 PM

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you weirdo

(this is not anonymous, this is laura)

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