In The Balance
In my own wavering balance
Desire fluctuates with modesty
But I choose what I see
I bow my neck to the yoke
For the burden is sweeter after all
And so I take it upon me
Friday, June 01, 2007
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Dizzy with light, we dipped into that enormous book of holidays, its pages blazing with sunshine and scented with the sweet melting pulp of golden pears...
Klepsydra
Feline Classification
Favorite Catnap Reads
- A Simple Heart (Gustave Flaubert)
- A Thousand and One Ghosts (Alexander Dumas)
- Ahead of All Parting: Selected Poetry and Prose (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Au Bonheur des Dames (Emile Zola)
- Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
- Cousin Bazilio (Jose Maria Eça de Queiroz)
- Dark Water (Koji Suzuki)
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (Yukio Mishima)
- Death of a Red Heroine (Qiu Xialong)
- Deep River (Shusaku Endo)
- First Snow on Fuji (Yasunari Kawabata)
- For a Night of Love (Emile Zola)
- Germinal (Emile Zola)
- Honeymoon to Nowhere (Akimitsu Takagi)
- La Bete Humaine (Emile Zola)
- Letters on Life (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
- Nana (Emile Zola)
- Naoko (Keigo Higashino)
- Pot Luck (Emile Zola)
- Quicksand (Junichiro Tanizaki)
- Runaway Horses (Yukio Mishima)
- Seven Japanese Tales (Junichiro Tanizaki)
- Shanghai Baby (Wei Hui)
- Silence (Shusaku Endo)
- Some Prefer Nettles (Junichiro Tanizaki)
- Spiral (Koji Suzuki)
- Spring Snow (Yukio Mishima)
- Stained Glass Elegies (Shusaku Endo)
- The Crime of Father Amaro (Jose Maria Eça de Queiroz)
- The Dancing Girl of Izu (Yasunari Kawabata)
- The Decay of the Angel (Yukio Mishima)
- The Delta of Venus (Anäis Nin)
- The Drinking Den (L' Assommoir)(Emile Zola)
- The Earth (Emile Zola)
- The Illustrious House of Ramires (Jose Maria Eça de Queiroz)
- The Informer (Akimitsu Takagi)
- The Kill (Emile Zola)
- The Knight of the Maison Rouge (Alexander Dumas)
- The Sailor who Fell From Grace with The Sea (Yukio Mishima)
- The Samurai (Shusaku Endo)
- The Sea and Poison (Shusaku Endo)
- The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrow Root (Junichiro Tanizaki)
- The Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
- The Tattoo Murder Case (Akimitsu Takagi)
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Yukio Mishima)
- Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
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