Re: Need help choosing a novel to read

From: Marc Adler (marc.adler_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:48:53 GMT

Gavin Steyn wrote:

> More importantly than this hair-splitting,

Kevin's whole raison d'etre is to split hairs.

> it's presumably left me with a
> bunch of holes in my education (a lot of my difficulty with "Kinkakuji" was
> cultural references, like the Zen stuff).

Actually, I doubt that that was the major difficulty. That is, to the
Japanese, "Zen" isn't as homogeneous and uniform a thing as it is made
to appear in western books on the topic, all the more so in the hands of
someone like Mishima.

Marc