even more on the hat

helena kim (helenak@geocities.com)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:13:50 +0000

a quote i find relevant to the hat discussion:

'mark lamarr used to include, in his stand-up routine, the story of a
boy who could not stop sucking his thumb. eventually the boy was sent to
a psychologist, where they found out that he "just had a really nice
thumb."'

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for godot:

my encylcopaedia says:

'Zen Buddhism:
(Japanese Zen, meditation)
In China and Japan, a Buddhist school emphasising the transmission of
enlightenment from master to disciple without reliance on the
scriptures. It derives from the teaching of Bodhidharma, who came to
China in 520 AD. The two major sects, Soto and Rinzai, stress meditaion
and the use of logical paradoxes (koans) respectively, in order to
confound the rational mind so that transcendental wisdom can arise and
the disciple can realize his own Buddha-nature. Much of Japanese and
Chinese art, music and literature, as well as calligraphy, the tea
ceremony, martial arts, etc., express the spontaneous Zen attitude to
life. Recently Zen has gained followers in the West, where its
opposition to rationalism has popular appeal.'

nothing you probably haven't looked up yourself, but i wanted to feel
like i'm contributing something.

interstingly (or so *i* thought, anyway) zen comes between franco
zeffirelli and zenith.

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one more thing. remember, not all of us have degrees in lit. when you'te
talking about the difference between didactic and narrative styles, is
it that a narrative simply tells a story, whereas didactic is
'preaching' and trying to make the *reader* learn something from the way
the characters go about the their lives? (it's not in my encyclopaedia.)

gracias

:helena

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