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A Thousand Hamlets | Beyond the cat's form: The aesthetic epiphany of Zhaozhou's shoe-on-head in Zen koan
A koan: Monks from the eastern and western halls under Master Nanquan Puyuan were fighting over a cat. He happened upon them and said to the assembly, "If you can express the way, you save the cat. If you cannot, I will kill it." No one dared reply, so Nanquan killed the cat. Later, when Master Zhaozhou returned from outside, Nanquan told him what had happened. Upon hearing it, Zhaozhou took off his straw shoes, placed them on his head, and walked out. Nanquan said, "Had you been here earlier, you would have saved the cat."
A Thousand Hamlets | Beyond the cat's form: The aesthetic epiphany of Zhaozhou's shoe-on-head in Zen koan
A koan: Monks from the eastern and western halls under Master Nanquan Puyuan were fighting over a cat. He happened upon them and said to the assembly, "If you can express the way, you save the cat. If you cannot, I will kill it." No one dared reply, so Nanquan killed the cat. Later, when Master Zhaozhou returned from outside, Nanquan told him what had happened. Upon hearing it, Zhaozhou took off his straw shoes, placed them on his head, and walked out. Nanquan said, "Had you been here earlier, you would have saved the cat."
A Thousand Hamlets | Slow it down: Walking together into László's labyrinthine sentences
The Nobel Prize in Literature is the world's most influential literary award today. Each year, it generates numerous public speculations, and even some foreign bookies list odds for potential winners, attracting the public to place wagers. Writers enjoying worldwide literary fam,e such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, Anne Carson, and Colm Tóibín, are regular fixtures on these lists. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has appeared on the list for years; although very popular, he has yet to win the prize.
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