tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466924160507043747.post8877345540906171642..comments2023-03-26T11:31:24.472-04:00Comments on Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Bruce Ross on the Basho videoCurtis Dunlaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717921075352200852noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466924160507043747.post-17797206979047474602009-01-08T11:52:00.000-05:002009-01-08T11:52:00.000-05:00All of the points made have been interesting, and ...All of the points made have been interesting, and illuminating, including Bruce's points.<BR/><BR/>The fact still stands that human attitude at its best towards children is ambiguous.<BR/><BR/>Possibly a million children die a year through hunger, beatings, poverty, religion, culture, race etc...<BR/><BR/>We allow more children to be killed now than possibly at any other time.<BR/><BR/>Basho mostArea 17https://www.blogger.com/profile/07472190637554124160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466924160507043747.post-68856577731563258872009-01-08T08:54:00.000-05:002009-01-08T08:54:00.000-05:00Might I suggest, that 'judging' Basho based on so ...Might I suggest, that 'judging' Basho based on so little information is 'silly'. It was an interesting video, but not history. Nor is this 'story', with no context, any more reflective of Buddhist thought than the actions of a terrorist is of Islam.Mike Rehlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282511608180732314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466924160507043747.post-1433204964559243172009-01-08T08:06:00.000-05:002009-01-08T08:06:00.000-05:00I would like to second Lynne's 2nd point especiall...I would like to second Lynne's 2nd point especially - as with translation itself, the cultural gap is so wide as to be nearly incomprehensible. Translator/scholars such as R. H. Blyth and D. T. Suzuki posit that not only is it nearly impossible to understand haiku in translation, that it is also nigh impossible to write haiku in any language other than Japanese for just these cultural reasons.<Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4466924160507043747.post-74344501222998166222009-01-08T06:38:00.000-05:002009-01-08T06:38:00.000-05:00There are two things that ocurred to me reading th...There are two things that ocurred to me reading the account:<BR/><BR/>1. Basho's journals were literature... (I think I'm right when I say that he took artistic liberties, selected and re-organised things to create 'art') ... so can we really be sure that the event 'happened' exactly like this? Could it have been 'enlarged' upon, or was it invented for a particular purpose i.e. to have a specfic Lynne Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11852192697142140025noreply@blogger.com