Wednesday 16 April 2003

If you’ve noticed that I’ve been frequenting your blogs more of late, yes, my little learning project collapsed like a 20th-century Iraqi regime. I got to a certain point, and failed to push through. Sigh. Perhaps a second go at it in a few months.
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Gratuitous moxie link. Come prepared to quote old Nicholson movies. Er, go prepared. Be prepared?
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Cherry buds about. Almost time for the Newark cherry blossom festival.

Speaking of which:

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People commonly say that the full blossoming of the cherry occurs on the 150th day after the winter solstice, or a week after the vernal equinox, but the 75th day after the beginning of spring is generally correct.
—Kenkõ
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkõ
Donald Keene, translator
Though I really don’t know what he’s talking about. When’s springtime in Japan?
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