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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Adolph Ernestus Thierens – in English the ‘h’
would be silent as in ‘Thomas,’ and the name would rhyme with ‘appearance’ –
was one of the great 20<sup>th</sup>-century Dutch astrologers. In the eyes of
some, including myself, he was the greatest. He was born in 1875 and died in
1941 at the age of 66.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is not easy to find biographical information
on Thierens, and it is still less easy to find information that is reliable.
There are a few websites that mention him, but what they say or imply is
sometimes incorrect or misleading. For example, it is not true that he was one
of the co-founders of the organization called in Dutch the Werkgemeenschap van
Astrologen. Dutch writers are wont to call this organization the ‘Workcommunity
of astrologers’; I prefer to call it the Astrologers’ Collaborative. That
organization was not formally established till 1947. It is true that Thierens
was one of the three thinkers whose ideas in various proportions went into what
has survived as the astrological theory and practice of the Collaborative. But
it is also true that Thierens emphatically disapproved of the later development,
synthesis and use of those ideas. In that sense, it is a serious distortion to
regard him merely as a sort of sponsoring avuncular precursor who made a few
contributions to a single later line of development whose legitimate heir was
Theo Ram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Dutch usage, a distinction is sometimes made
between ‘astrology’ as a set of philosophical ideas structured or symbolized
along the lines of astronomy, and ‘horoscopy’ as the practice of drawing up and
interpreting horoscopes. My own interest is decidedly more in the former. I am
not a member of the Astrologers’ Collaborative, but I have studied its theory
and practice in great detail and have enjoyed dialogs with some of its leading
exponents. I first read Thierens some forty years ago and have never really
stopped re-reading him. I am not a Theosophist and do not ‘believe in’
Thierens’ philosophical system as such, but I have sympathy with the spirit if
not the letter of much of it, and there are many passages in his writings which
have remained important signposts for me personally. In 2018, while re-reading
his works I tried to find out more about his personal life and background. It
was then that I discovered not much had been written about him, and in such
information as there was, he had been rather seriously misrepresented. Searching
here, inquiring there, between then and now I have managed to put together what
I believe to be a meaningful and fair outline of Thierens’ life and career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thierens was the son of a naval officer, and he
originally aspired to a career in the Royal Dutch Navy. Becoming a cadet in
1890 and an officer in 1894, he was stationed in the Dutch East Indies for
several years. An injury sustained in the line of duty left him unfit for
active service, and he was discharged with a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>pension in 1903. This mishap, which temporarily ended his regular worldly
employment, left him with time and freedom to pursue a strong personal interest
in Theosophy and astrology. He began writing and publishing on these subjects.
In 1906 he joined the Theosophical Society. Thierens met the prominent British
astrologer and Theosophist Alan Leo (1860-1917) when the latter visited the
Netherlands; this meeting soon resulted in a Dutch version of Leo’s magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Modern Astrology</i> under the editorship of
Leo and the Dutch Theosophical writer H.J. van Ginkel. Starting in 1907 the
magazine, under Dutch editors including Thierens, was published as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i>. The same year saw the founding
of the Association for Astronomy and Modern Astrology, eventually to be called
the Dutch Astrological Association (Nederlands astrologisch genootschap), which
Thierens chaired for many years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Never the loner in either worldly or occult
matters, in 1908 Thierens made<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>commitments on both sides. He became a Freemason (in the Cazotte Lodge,
which admitted both men and women), and he married Wilhelmina Maria Smol, with
whom he would eventually have four children. He was active as a journalist and
a lecturer. The responsibilities of family life did not prevent him from
becoming a prolific writer on astrology. In 1909 he published his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Textbook of Astrology</i> (Leerboek der
astrologie) in which the text was written by himself and the mathematical
tables were provided by Alan Leo. In the next couple of years he wrote and
published his ‘Cosmology’ series of three books in Dutch on astrology: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of Practical Astrology</i>
(Elementen der praktische astrologie, 1911), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astrology as a Philosophy of Life</i> (De astrologie als levensleer,
1912), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Essays on Natural Philosophy</i>
(Wetenschappelijke opstellen – natuurfilosofie, 1913). The ‘Cosmology’ books
were published by ‘Luctor et Emergo,’ one of whose owners was a fellow
Freemason. This house had a certain prominence as it published one of the leading
Dutch literary magazines, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De nieuwe gids</i>,
as well as literary studies by the famous poet Willem Kloos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now that he had discovered in himself a deep
affinity with both Theosophy and astrology, Thierens’ great project as a writer
and thinker was to combine the two: to reinterpret the elements of traditional
astrology as analogs or symbolizations of what he felt to be the cosmological
truths of Theosophy. If Theosophy explained the underlying motives or
mechanisms of human life, astrology could be a meaningful and instructive
charting of those same motives and mechanisms. </span></div>
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Theosophical sources of many of his ideas. On the contrary, he urged readers to
study the works of H.P. Blavatsky as he had done. He also referred often to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Science of Peace </i>by the Indian
writer Bhagavan Das (1869-1958), first published in 1904. In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Science of Peace</i>, a central concept
was the ubiquitous dichotomy of ‘ego’ and ‘non-ego’ and the creative interplay
between the two. In his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of
Esoteric Astrology </i>Thierens quoted Bhagavan Das in detail on this idea as
relevant to ‘the process of evolution of the Self.’ He made it clear, not
unproudly, that the description of the process was from Bhagavan Das but it was
himself, Thierens, who had found the astrological correlation with the
so-called ‘aspects,’ i.e., the type and degree of relationship between any two
planets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The idea of ever-present interaction between
‘ego’ and ‘non-ego,’ or the similar but not identical presentation of a
‘subject’ as inseparably distinct from an ‘object,’ was to become a hallmark of
Thierens’ thought, both in his own works and as it was adopted by the
Astrologers’ Collaborative. Over the years there were (and still are)
discussions as to the degree to which a horoscope could or could not adequately
be used to describe the ‘subject,’ but the centrality of such a dichotomy has
remained one of the main distinguishing features of this line of Dutch
astrological thought as it has come down from Thierens via Ram (Theo Ram or
Th.J.J. Ram, 1884-1961) and the Astrologers’ Collaborative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In these early years, many of Thierens’ ideas
were developed in close collaboration with a remarkable woman whose name is now
seldom if ever mentioned – Lena C. de Beer (1877-1938). Lena de Beer had been
one of the first women in The Netherlands to study at a university. Majoring in
Dutch language and literature, she pursued her studies through the level of
what was called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Candidaats</i>,
roughly equivalent to an American bachelor’s degree. She did not, as many
students did, go on to further studies in Dutch because by that time she was
overwhelmingly attracted by the occult. She became librarian of the
Theosophical Library in Amsterdam, and by the 1930s would be running one of the
foremost occult bookstores in Holland. She would also be active as a spirit
medium who occasionally held seances in the bookstore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1910, a lecture by Thierens and a follow-up
article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i> by Lena de Beer alerted
Dutch astrologers to the notion that beyond the planets known to astronomers at
that time, there might or should be additional planets. Before long, subsequent
articles widened the discussion, and the notion became common that if there
were twelve signs in the zodiac, there must also theoretically be twelve
different planets to ‘rule’ those signs. (In traditional astrology, in which
planets beyond Saturn were unknown, a planet ‘ruled’ two different signs; e.g.,
Mars was the ruler of both Aries and Scorpio.) Thierens, who in 1909 had
already introduced new philosophy-based symbols for the planets Uranus and
Neptune for use within<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dutch
astrological circles, went on to theorize as to what names and symbols should
be applied to the remaining planets. The results featured in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementen der praktische astrologie</i>
which appeared in 1911. Several years later, in 1916, Lena de Beer published an
article asserting on theoretical grounds that Thierens had long been confusing
the symbols for Uranus and the ultimate twelfth planet. Later in the same year,
Thierens admitted she was right; he retracted his earlier point of view and
admitted that a relevant passage in his 1911 book was erroneous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, World War I had broken out. The
Netherlands remained neutral but the armed forces were mobilized. Thierens was
recalled to service as a Lieutenant in the Navy. He was put in charge of naval
artillery at Ymuiden, and of disarming sea mines which had drifted into Dutch
waters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the Masonic side of his occult life, there
were new developments in these years. In 1913, as a result of personal
conflicts within the Cazotte Lodge, Thierens had briefly become associated with
a new Masonic branch called the Washington Lodge. In 1917 he was involved as
Grand Master in the establishment of yet another Freemasons’ lodge: the Masonic
Astrological Humanist Rite, sometimes referred to as the M.A.H. One of its
co-founders was his fellow Theosophist Theo Ram, who also joined the
Astrological Association in 1917. Ram would later become the dominant figure in
the Astrological Association, a pathbreaking new astrological theorist, and in
some respects a rival to Thierens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1920 Thierens was sent to Surinam, then a
Dutch colony, to supervise the government ships there. His wife and children
joined him briefly but soon went back to Europe. Thierens’ new government job
was supposedly to be a permanent one, but in 1923, as a result of drastic
retrenchment he was sent back to The Netherlands on half pay. Meanwhile his
marriage had become problematical, and he entered into a new common-law partnership.
He worked intensively on his Masonic involvements, and in 1924 set up his own astrological
office in Zandvoort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1925 at an event in Lausanne, Switzerland,
Thierens received an honorary doctorate for his astrological contributions. The
school issuing the degree was an American institution: the College of
Journalism, Political Science and Languages. From now on, in the byline of his
writings Thierens would often refer to himself as ‘A.E. Thierens, Ph.D.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1928, a bombshell was dropped into the world
of Dutch astrology. Leo Knegt (1882-1957), a professional astrologer and a
friend of Ram’s, published a massively technical book titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astrology: Scientific Technique</i>
(Astrologie, wetenschappelijke techniek). In it, he presented revolutionary new
ways of calculating two of the most basic factors in a horoscope. It would go
beyond the scope of this article to explain Knegt’s ideas in detail. But
briefly, in the calculation of both the house boundaries and the planetary
positions, for Knegt the locality as focused in the ascendant plays a major co-determining
role.This supposedly yields a more individual perspective than in most other
methods. For example, traditionally the positions of the planets (by zodiacal sign
and degree) were taken to be the same for all persons born at the same moment.
They were reckoned simply by zodiacal longitude, which remains the same regardless
of where an observer on earth may be. Knegt proposed a novel spherical-trigonometric
configuration by which the planetary positions were mapped into the individual
horoscopic frame, assigning to each planet the degree in which it would actually
have been seen from the locality of birth. If this method is used, horoscopes
of two persons born at the same moment but in different places may show the
same planet in differing degrees, perhaps even in different signs. Knegt
referred to this individualized projection as True Zodiacal Position. And in
his method of house division, which he called the Ascendant Parallel Circle
system, the degrees and possibly the signs appearing on the boundaries of
houses on opposite sides of the horoscopic circle may be different. In
traditional terms this is unheard of, since the very meanings of the houses are
often explained as derived from their standing in exactly 180-degree or polar
contrast to the opposite houses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From the outset, Thierens opposed these
innovations. Soon after the appearance of Knegt’s book, he tried to get the
Astrological Association to set up a committee to experiment with Knegt’s
proposals, and published a critical review in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i>. His criticisms were of several kinds. For one thing, he
found it arrogant and misleading of Knegt to present his system as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> ‘scientific technique’ of astrology,
rather than as one possible approach among others. As for the new prominence
given to the ascendant in the calculations, Thierens felt this amounted to
reading the planets and signs within a ‘mundane’ (i.e. earth-centered)
framework, thereby de-emphasizing the larger cosmic significance which gave
them their character and values in the first place. In that sense, he could not
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another question he asked was: if Knegt has
just now finally revealed the one-and-only valid system, how is it that so many
of us, for years and decades now, have been achieving such convincing results
using traditional methods?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1931, Thierens again wrote a short piece in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i> on this subject. Not much had
come of the idea of getting a committee to investigate the validity of Knegt’s
ideas. By now Thierens was calling it ‘the Knegt-Ram method.’ He regretted that
its proponents seemed little interested in demonstrating the success of their
new system to others. At about the same time, Theo Ram’s article ‘The Mystery
Planets’ assigned to the last three still-undiscovered planets, whose probable
existence was widely accepted in Association circles, names different to those
Thierens had been proposing for decades. Thierens must have felt his authority
as a thinker being eroded by the increasing prominence of the brilliantly
unorthodox Knegt-Ram duo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The following year, seemingly in response to
these destabilizing new developments, Thierens published an astrological manual
of his own called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astrological
Calculations</i> (Astrologische berekeningen). Unlike Knegt’s tome, it was
compact – only 128 pages – and easy to follow. In it, he referred to what he
had already published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i> on
the unorthodox methods now being proposed by Knegt and Ram. Again recommending
the venerable Campanus system of house division which he had been using for
many years, he provided a short conversion table by which Dutch readers, if
they were not in possession of house tables made specifically for Campanus,
could calculate the Campanus house boundaries based on more generally
accessible astrological tables.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile, his personal life had not been
unruffled. A divorce from his first wife in 1927 had been followed in the same
year by remarriage to a baroness. In 1932 that marriage also ended in divorce. In
1933 Thierens was married yet again, this time to a woman 31 years younger than
himself. But he continued his astrological writing unabated. In 1933 he began
editing the quarterly magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Esoterische
astrologie</i> which was published in the Dutch East Indies. He also published
a Dutch version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of Esoteric
Astrology</i>, which he had published in England and the United States in 1931
following two other books in English since 1928. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If Thierens was showing such an interest in
publishing outside The Netherlands, it may well have been because developments
in Holland were not to his liking. The uncertainty and continuing debate caused
by the Knegt-Ram technical innovations would continue for some years, but there
also seem to have been other issues within the Astrological Association that
were coming to a head in the mid-thirties. At the same time, Thierens was aware
of his approaching sixtieth birthday (20 December 1935). In the course of 1935,
a serious crisis developed within the Association. At one point, the whole steering
committee quit in protest. Whether or not in reaction to these developments,
perhaps mindful that his father had lived to be only 54, Thierens decided the
time had come to lay down all his worldly responsibilities. He relinquished all
his official posts within the Association, including the chair. At about the
same time, on the Freemasonry side of his life, he declared that he would no
longer continue as Grand Master of the M.A.H....and, much to the consternation
of the other members, that the M.A.H. was herewith disbanded! For a while the stunned
members, led by Ram, took refuge in an alternative lodge which they called Astrological
Freemasonry (Astrologische Vrijmetselarij; AvM). Several years later, it was
superseded by the new Order for Astrological Ceremonial Mysticism, again under
Ram, which has continued in existence down to the present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At this distance in time, it is not easy to
reconstruct exactly what happened within the Astrological Association during
the 1935 crisis. According to a report published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i> afterward which referred to recent ‘unpleasant’ happenings,
by November 1935 the Association was in debt, its archives had been impounded,
and its bank account was frozen pending the outcome of a lawsuit. But by 1936, the
Association had been reorganized on a more authoritarian basis, clearly headed
by Ram. In June 1936, a list published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i>
gave the new standard terms and names to be used in all publications of the
Astrological Association; the names designated for the Mystery Planets were not
those used by Thierens.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Mystery Planets – which names, which
mysteries?</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By the late 1930s Thierens, Knegt and Ram were
clearly going three different ways in both theory and practice. The sensational
new calculating methods which Knegt had launched with his 1928 book, and which
from an early stage had captured Ram’s heart, continued to form a cornerstone
of Ram’s now-dominant system. But Thierens had never accepted these
innovations, and in this he was now joined by...Knegt himself! By the end of
1937, Knegt was publicly disavowing the notion of True Zodiacal Position, and
in his formidably technical last book which came out in 1939, he used
sophisticated arguments to reject the Ascendant Parallel Circle method of
calculating the houses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Superficially, it might have seemed that the
three were still in agreement on the matter of the so-called Mystery Planets –
i.e., the planets lying beyond Saturn including the newly discovered Pluto and
the three additional planets which all three men theorized to lie beyond. It is
true that all three theoretically accepted the idea that the true rulers of the
twelve astrological signs should be twelve different planets, whether or not
they had been ‘objectively’ discovered by astronomers. But whereas for Knegt
and Thierens this remained a theory suggested by underlying philosophical
assumptions, Ram tried to integrate the Mystery Planets into the
bread-and-butter mechanics of horoscope calculation. He believed their actual zodiacal
positions could be worked out by educated guesswork. The three trans-Pluto
planets were posited to be the true rulers of the signs Taurus, Gemini and
Cancer. By examining horoscopes with the ascendant in one of those three signs,
he reasoned, it might be possible to surmise where in the horoscope, hence
where in the zodiac, the relevant ‘ruler’ must be lurking. By 1935, at the very
end of his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Psychologische astrologie</i>,
he felt confident enough to include a ‘condensed ephemeris’ of two of these
three planets – Persephone and Hermes as rulers of Taurus and Gemini
respectively. When the second edition came out in 1949, the ephemeris would
include Demeter – Ram’s name for the true ruler of Cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thierens not only refrained from any attempt to
locate the last three Mystery Planets concretely in actual horoscopes; in his
last book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic Law</i> (Cosmische wet,
1937) he even considered it unlikely that the three trans-Pluto planets would
ever actually be discovered by astronomers.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This brings us to another area of lasting
disagreement between Ram and Thierens – the names of the last three Mystery
Planets. Ram, in his 1935 version which became standard and has continued in
Collaborative usage to this day, used Greek names for the putative rulers of
Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer: Persephone, Hermes, and Demeter. Thierens, though
in publications over the years he was not always consistent, from an early
stage used Egyptian names as well. The last three planets, as he called them in
the 1930s, were Isis, Hermes, and Horus. (When Knegt published a book on horary
astrology in 1936, he called these hypothetical planets by Thierens’ names for
them, though politely mentioning that his ‘friend and colleague Ram’ was now
using Persephone and Demeter.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The difference in names is not a mere
curiosity. It reflects a fundamental difference in point of view. Put simply,
from the beginning Thierens’ conception of the Mystery Planets was that they
were indeed mysterious, distant and different from everyday notions, cosmic
rather than ‘mundane’ in their import. In 1915, in an article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urania</i> he even suggested that Latin
names were inappropriate for these planets because the Romans had integrated the
cults of their gods into everyday life, whereas the Egyptians in their Book of
the Dead had maintained a mystical and more-than-physical concept of such
deities as Isis and Horus.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Ram’s publications on this subject, starting
with his 1931 article <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘De
mysterie-planeten’</i> which even today is quoted as an important new
departure, the accent was not so much on what exactly the Mystery Planets <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i>, but rather on what they concretely
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i>. Ram saw in the six direct
parallels with a group of six primal forces (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shakti</i>) described by the Indian Theosophical author Subba Row. In
Ram’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Psychologische astrologie</i>
(1935/1949) this remained the framework of his discussion. Ram seemed to be
saying that although these six forces affected individuals’ lives, at the
present stage of humanity’s development those affects were still mainly on a
vast scale of collective happenings and there was little scope for the
individual to interact meaningfully with them. He did not, as Thierens did,
suggest that the individual cycle of development had something to ‘give back’
to the greater framework: that the solar system itself was in process of
becoming more conscious.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thierens always stressed that incarnation
involved a phase of coming into this world, but also a phase of going back out
of it. As he wrote in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of
Esoteric Astrology</i>: ‘The outflow of life from the solar centre must be
completed by an inflow back from the circumference.’ An alternative formulation
in his publications was an ‘outbound arc’ followed by an ‘inbound arc.’ This
again was an idea from Bhagavan Das which Thierens had adapted for his own
theory of the planetary aspects. In various publications over the years, he
reprinted his own version of a diagram of this cyclic process that had appeared
in 1911 in an <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>article by Lena de Beer.
De Beer had taken the position that in deeper or cosmic perspective, the zodiac
should be viewed as running from Leo to Cancer rather than from Aries to
Pisces. The process of incarnation could be symbolized as a continuous loop
starting with the sun (associated with Leo), moving on an ‘outbound arc’
through the other planets representing types of experience gained during the
course of life, and then returning to the origin through Cancer as the last
phase of ingathering and summation. In Thierens’ version of the diagram, the
series of planets along the loop was expanded to include the planets beyond
Saturn: Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (which Thierens liked to call Osiris), and the
undiscovered but hypothesized true rulers of Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. Cancer
is the twelfth and closing phase of the loop which begins with Leo, and its
ruler Horus is mythologically the child, not the parent, of the ruler of the
tenth phase (Isis as ruler of Taurus).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For Ram, by the mid-1930s when his charting of
the Mystery Planets had found its lasting form, the ruler of the twelfth stage
(Demeter) was the mother of the ruler of the tenth (Persephone), suggesting
that Cancer or its mythological ruler represented an originary rather than a
concluding phase. In general, in the later writings of Ram and his school on
the Mystery Planets, the planets are often charted not as a continuous loop but
as a complex arrangement of symmetries in which the anciently known planets are
divided into two contrasting groups of three headed respectively by the sun
(called ‘Apollo’) and Saturn, while these groups are counterbalanced by two
more groups of three made up of the Mystery Planets both known and
hypothetical. In the whole scheme, there are four ‘planets of the Will’ or ‘planets
of Being,’ and Demeter, ruler of Cancer, is one of them. This makes Demeter
(the equivalent of Thierens’ ‘Horus’) not a phase in a continuing chain but a
full-fledged source. It seems to envisage Cancer’s ruler as causative or
impelling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">toward</i> the earth-life,
rather than gathering or harvesting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">back
away from</i> earth.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last years and legacy</span></u></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An outstanding difference between Thierens and
either Ram or Knegt was that Thierens did not publish his books only in Dutch.
By the early 1930s a British publisher, Rider, had brought out three works by
Thierens which are still occasionally read: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Natural
Philosophy</i> (1928), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The General Book
of the Tarot</i> (1928), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements
of Esoteric Astrology</i> (1931). The latter two books were also published in
the United States by David McKay. The copyrights have now expired and the books
are available for download. Like many well-educated Europeans, Thierens seems
to have thought his English was good enough not to require editing by a native
speaker before publication. As a result, occasionally a word or phrase is
unclear or misleading as it stands (e.g., ‘addicted’ for ‘attributed’), but on
the whole the books are ‘difficult’ only in the sense that the philosophy
behind them is certainly not simple. Judging from internet comments, there is
still quite some demand for these books internationally. In particular, the
book on the Tarot, which is actually an astrological reading of the Tarot or a
projection of astrological equivalents onto the Tarot cards, has been reissued
numerous times.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the mid-1930s, Thierens published a book in
Dutch on the Tarot. Called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tarot in
Practice</i> (De Tarot in de praktijk), it featured Thierens’ original drawings
of the 22 cards of the so-called Major Arcana. The drawings were based on
Thierens’ own philosophical interpretation of the cards. This was in striking
contrast to his English book on the Tarot, first published in 1928, in which he
had reproduced the illustrations from the so-called Rider-Waite Tarot deck. The
exact year of Thierens’ Dutch book is uncertain; the catalog of the National
Library in The Hague lists it tentatively as 1935. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In any event, 1935 saw the publication of
another monograph by Thierens in English, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astrology
in Mesopotamian Culture</i>, issued by the respected Leiden publisher E.J.
Brill.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whether or not because publication in English
offered him a chance to express his ideas unhindered by the increasing strife
and competition in the Dutch astrological arena, Thierens was originally
planning to go on beyond <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of
Esoteric Astrology</i> to at least one additional book in English, which was to
be called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Astrology in Ethics</i>. He
announced it in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">E.E.A.</i> but as things
turned out, in the turbulent 1930s it never materialized. Perhaps the ideas he
had in mind for it formed the gist of his last book, published in Dutch in 1937
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic Law</i> (Cosmische wet). At the
very beginning of that book, there is a short introduction: ‘After the trilogy
comprising <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Natuurfilosofie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementen der esoterische astrologie</i> and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De astrologie als levensleer</i>
(Astrology as a Philosophy of Life), something remained to be said. A
conclusion was still to be drawn...May this little book provide it.’ </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the summer of 1939, Thierens suffered a
serious stroke. Understandably, after that date no further publications are on
record. He died on 30 December 1941, ten days after his 66<sup>th</sup>
birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thierens’ ideas continue to survive both in
their own right and as elements in the still-vital theories of Theo Ram and his
school. Between 1979 and 1987, the occult publisher Schors brought out reprints
of Thierens’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementen der praktische
astrologie</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elementen der esoterische
astrologie</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De tarot in de
praktijk</i>. Thierens’ own major publications in Dutch do not seem to have
been reprinted since then, though they remain easily and cheaply available
secondhand. His English publications, by contrast, have weathered well and
continue to be in demand. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Natural
Philosophy</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elements of Esoteric
Astrology</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">General Book of the
Tarot</i> (title may vary) were all reprinted as recently as 2013, and an
e-book of the Tarot manual came out in 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Theo Ram wrote only one book as sole author: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Psychologische astrologie</i>. The first
edition appeared in 1935 and the second in 1949. A paperback reprint, curiously
based on the first rather than the revised second edition, was published in
1976 and is still easily available in Holland. Ram’s book undoubtedly continues
to be widely consulted by Dutch astrologers, probably often not in the way that
he would have wished. It is said that he was reluctant to write down his ideas
systematically in the form of a ‘cookbook’ which astrologers would mechanically
consult without learning to draw their own conclusions: Venus in Scorpio
‘means’ this; Jupiter square Mars ‘results in’ that. But the tone and
organization of the book make it both tempting and entertaining to browse
passively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In his brief chapter called ‘The General Theory
of the Aspects,’ Ram acknowledges that it was Thierens who first introduced the
notion of aspects between any two planets as ‘successive phases of a cyclic
process.’ But in Ram’s presentation, the ‘outbound arc’ and ‘inbound arc’ are
not worked out in relation to the (re)incarnation process and its cosmic
background. Rather, the frame of reference is this-worldly and psychological.
The ‘I’ or ego is described as a ‘central’ element which must learn to ‘realize
itself’ in conscious distinction from its ‘circumference’ of objective
experiences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have often wondered why the 1976 paperback
reprint of Ram’s book, which since its first appearance has undoubtedly been
the most widely read edition, was based on the first and not the second version
of the original. For one thing, the 1949 second edition is marred by a
dismaying number of uncorrected misprints; it is possible that the paperback
publisher found these objectionable. But it may also be that the original
edition, in which the supposed last and hypothetical planet Demeter is less
discussed, seemed less likely to be daunting to potential buyers who might just
want to ‘consult Ram’ without seriously studying his complex and controversial
philosophical system. In any case, Ram’s book has never been translated into
English. At one time I was considering translating it myself; I was stymied by
the realization that I could think of no serviceable English equivalent for one
of the most crucial and recurrent words in the book – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wezen</i> as a noun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is not the slightest likelihood that I
will still translate any book by Thierens as a whole. But if I were to try my
hand at a short selection of memorable quotes out of context – one of my
favorite genres – it would certainly include the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--Experience is a change in being.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--Experience is the reward paid by the
environment to the central point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--We do not dive into this sublunar world to
‘learn lessons,’ but to be our Self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--Consciousness is the life of the Human Tree.
It grows with the tree; it makes the tree grow and is the fruit thereof...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Taipei, Taiwan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">June 2020</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[In the fall of 1979, I was sent to
Mainland China for three months to conduct research on the current status of
foreign literature in the PRC. Sights, scenes, and sentiments garnered during
that trip inspired me to write a sequence of poems in Dutch that were later
published in the literary magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De
gids</i> and still later as part of my first book of poems, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ikonen bij daglicht</i>, which was published
in Amsterdam by Querido in 1982. </span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In fall 2019, I finally made the
following English translations, followed in some cases by background notes.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As always, to emphasize that poetry
should not be bound by the actualities of public time, I transcribe Chinese
place-names not by the contemporary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hanyu
pinyin</i> system but using the older established English spellings.]</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hail</span></i></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It can happen so suddenly:</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a skyful of stones</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">arisen from water.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did it come from lakes in the South,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">deserts to westward? Seek no explanation</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">on earth: where we are now</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is reality. Look:</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">every human here</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wears a mask. Calm, patient,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">far above the crossings</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of the Ten Thousand Streets stands</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">one white bus dead still.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(On ‘Hail’)</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
strophe 3, the ‘masks’ were suggested by the sight of denizens of Peking
wearing white masks to shield their noses, mouths, and throats against the
combination of winter cold and the dust or coal particles in the ambient air.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the last strophe, there is a slight technical echo of classical Chinese poetry,
in which ‘parallelism’ is a standard structuring device. An element which has
already been mentioned is ‘paralleled’ by a following term which is either
similar or opposite to it in some respect. In this case, ‘Ten Thousand’ – in
itself a parody of translations from Chinese in which it actually just means
‘numberless’ – is contrasted with ‘one.’ The inveterate seeker for
significances might note that in this case there is only ‘one’ bus covering
‘ten thousand’ streets – an image of scarcity (?).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peasant
baby</span></i></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The white-haired androgyne who’ll be</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For you it’s still to come:</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Take it slow: a lifetime. These days</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The androgyne beyond all years,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">toothbrush in hand</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">clears her throat on a swig of morning
sun,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(On ‘Peasant baby’)</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such
‘Western’ or ‘capitalist’ things as Coca-Cola or Sony were new-fangled in the
China of 1979 in which I as a traveler got the inspiration for these poems.
They had to be fitted in somehow with the continuing orthodoxy of the
Dictatorship of the Proletariat.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the fourth strophe, the androgyne stands ‘toothbrush in hand’ because she is
one of the many people one could see early in the morning brushing their teeth
outdoors, typically with a metal or pottery mug in the other hand.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
last two lines could be taken to imply that the androgyne, who is already
‘beyond all years,’ stands above the come-and-go of worldly politics. To her,
the ‘morning sun’ is not Mao Zedong, whom a popular slogan called ‘the reddest
red sun in our hearts,’ but just something to clear her throat on.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When the ground uprises</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Make no mistake: what peels off</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is paint: the walls</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is true</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
Peking one could indeed see grass, at least a few blades of it, growing on
roofs. It had rooted in the windblown soil that had found its way up there.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For me personally, this harked back to
THE poem which had first turned me on to modern Chinese poetry – Bian Zhilin’s
‘Grass on the Wall’</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "新細明體" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體;"><span lang="NL">, </span></span><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">which I had first read in Kai-yu Hsu’s
translation.</span><br />
<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The relevant lines (from Hsu's <i>Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry</i>, p. 165) were</span><br />
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just think, there are people who spend all their days</span><br />
<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dreaming a little and watching the wall a little,</span><br />
<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the grass on the wall turns tall and then yellow.</span><br />
<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Peking in 1979, garbage cans were green.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How many centuries have you waited</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to bring me to the other side</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">O wield that rudder slowly –</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of yonder shore be clear, be merely
willows.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Altar of the Moon</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is a clump of old men</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">playing chess.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has been driven out, all the gates</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">are open. There’s even</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a sun: pale, still learning,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">helped out here and there</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by leaves on autumn trees.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unseen women</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No man will live here long enough</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to make new moves:</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">every one on feet of stone already,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">pinned in place securely</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by the long-as-ever nails</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of a banished maiden.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pumpkin
soup</span></i></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘An army marches on its stomach’; dream
trucks</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">watches: herself in Army dress,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by sunlight: pumpkin time,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">silent as a full truck</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">lurching, raising dust, smelling
sweet...</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There they come, the bearers:</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the unbelievable procession of real
children,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">each carrying a bowl in both hands.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(On ‘Pumpkin soup’)</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘An
army marches on its stomach’ is a famous dictum by the Prussian general and
military theorist Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831). In other words, success in
warfare depends on being able to solve homely logistic problems like keeping
the troops fed.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
1979 when I was in China, women and girls still regularly wore military-style
uniforms.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Summer
Palace</span></i></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here, in olden times</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">sharp? heady? ‘Pluck a few leaves...’</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">beyond imagining. No Buddha</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is watching you. ‘Rubbing these,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the Essence emerges...’ Or are you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> hungry?</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Hiding under grey hair</span></div>
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selling</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Go ahead, try standing in line</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">with thousands of living beings,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">all with bowl-shaped hands.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Thus, o Monks,</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was all that had once been desired</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">called into being.’</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(On ‘Summer Palace’)</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
parts in quotation marks form a sub-text in the style of English translations
of Buddhist scriptures.</span></div>
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<span lang="NL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
China in 1979, because I could speak Chinese I was allowed to roam the cities
alone, and had at least the illusion that my movements were not being
monitored. In other words, not even a Buddha was watching me.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-50779059467936965172019-10-07T01:33:00.000+08:002019-10-07T01:33:41.199+08:00Gedicht: 'In den vreemde logerend, denk ik aan mijn naderende drieënzeventigste verjaardag'<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Het wit van deze volle maan</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">doet mij denken aan destijds</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">een jarretelgordel.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dat nu al herfstwind schuurt</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">over de verlaten vlonder</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is niets nieuws.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ik heb geen jacht dat dobbert</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">dat de wind vannacht</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">zal keren.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wáár mijn toekomstige graf al</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">klaarligt, mag voor nu</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nog Joost weten.</span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">--Lloyd Haft</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-50126593635948244612018-07-07T17:04:00.000+08:002018-07-26T01:14:14.126+08:00Nieuwe bundel 'Intocht'Om op tijd te zijn voor een presentatie op 23 juni heb ik mijn nieuwe dichtbundel, <i>Intocht</i>, niet bij een commerciële uitgever aangeboden maar in eigen beheer uitgegeven. Het boek is en wordt als POD-uitgave gedrukt door het American Book Center in Den Haag. Exemplaren kunnen worden besteld op hun website (abc.nl) voor euro 7,60 plus portokosten:<br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.abc.nl/book-details/intocht/g9789492563415">https://www.abc.nl/book-details/intocht/g9789492563415</a><br />
<br />
Deze bundel is geïnspireerd door mijn ervaringen als zanger en lezer bij een katholieke gemeenschap van de Slavisch-Byzantijnse ritus in Den Haag. <i>Intocht</i> is een verslag in gedichten van de blijvende verbondenheid na een overlijden. Verbondenheid met de overledene, maar ook met de andere leden van de gemeenschap, die 'de levens- en de nadag samen' blijven beleven.<br />
<br />
Hieronder volgt het nawoord van de bundel, met daarna de eerste twee gedichten.<br />
<br />
-- Lloyd Haft<br />
7 juli 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">NAWOORD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Toen Kees Hoogzaad in
december 2013 overleed, kreeg ik een machtige impuls om na enkele jaren waarin
ik mij op inactief had gesteld, mij weer te gaan scharen bij de kring van
Slavisch-Byzantijnse katholieken in Den Haag. Zoals zo vaak werd het wegroepen
van de één voor anderen aanleiding om weer bij elkaar te komen. Om een gedicht
uit deze bundel te citeren: de Geest is een ‘vlam die verteert en vergadert’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In de Slavisch-Byzantijnse religieuze praktijk spelen
beelden een voorname rol. Wat niet in woorden of logica gevat kan worden, kan
men zich voorstellen en, althans of alvast, in die zin beleven. In de kerk,
vaak ook thuis, is men omringd door ikonen die de aanwezigheid van een tijdloze
gemeenschap voorstelbaar houden. Een beeld, met toewijding op een houtje
geschilderd, is uit de liefdevolle voorstelling voortgekomen en voert daar
steeds in terug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ook
een fysiek gebaar kan een uitbeelding, een aanschouwelijk-maken, zijn. Het
aansteken, bevestigen of in de hand houden van een kaars is een verwelkoming en
een doorgeving van licht. Wie voorleest uit een eeuwenoude gewijde tekst waar
dat licht op valt, brengt er een hoorbare dimensie bij. Gedurende vele jaren
had ik het voorrecht zanger en lezer te zijn bij de Kerk van de
Gedaanteverandering des Heren in Den Haag. Telkens werd ik aangedaan, en in
mijn eigen taalgebruik beïnvloed, door de vertalingen die ik daar zag van de
Oud-Slavische gebedsteksten. Door de directheid van stijl, waarin niets werd verklaard
en dus afgezwakt, bleef de krasse lichaamstaal behouden van juist de
geestelijke voorstelling. Hiervan mogen passages getuigen als</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moge mijn gebed u zijn/
als wierook vóór uw aangezicht</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">en</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Heb in u mijn
smeking...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Na het overlijden van
Kees en het weerzien met zovele geestverwanten, kon het niet anders of ik zou
erop doordenken, doorvoelen, en op mijn manier reageren. ‘Mijn manier’ zou dan
zijn, conform mijn aard: er iets over schrijven. En dan niet in de logische,
beperkte en beperkende taal van het wereldse proza, maar in poëzie. Poëzie, als
zingevende brug tussen wat is en wat zou kunnen zijn, spreekt vaak iets uit wat
de taal van de straat, of de krant van gisteravond, niet kan noemen. Als we
iets kunnen ‘beamen’ – eigenlijk ‘er amen op zeggen’ – waarom zouden we dan een
dierbaar mens na diens verdergaan niet ‘nabeamen’? Als wij ‘overschaduwd’ kunnen
worden, waarom niet ook ‘overlichaamd’ tijdens ervaringen van het vermeerderde
lichaam dat Paulus in 1 Korintiërs 12 en Efeziërs 4 heeft beschreven? Een
‘intocht’ is (onder andere) in de Oosterse liturgie het moment waarop de
priester met brood en wijn feestelijk binnentreedt – maar waarom niet ook
iemands intreden in een nieuwe bestaansvorm?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Na de uitvaart van Kees werd ik achtervolgd,
na-aangedaan, door herinnerde beelden en terugkomende zinsbeginselen. Een kring
mensen die met flakkerende kaarsen in de hand om een graf stonden. Een glimmend
schaaltje op tafel in de keuken van een kerkhuis. De lichtval in een sacristie,
gezien door een lezer op weg naar zijn lessenaar in de vroegte. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ik tekende ze op, ordende ze, en wijdde vaak
de kleine uurtjes aan de vreugdevolle arbeid er een soort Nederlands van te
maken. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nu, na vier jaar, lijkt mij de tijd gekomen om deze optekeningen
met anderen te delen. Om wat als ingeving begon, weer dóór te geven. Zo is de
kring pas rond.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">scheelt nu nog één
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-49847002553375175932018-02-06T21:45:00.000+08:002018-02-06T21:45:43.132+08:00After That One Night (poem)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">After That One Night</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I hold you tight because<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I never held you up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What if we met and the meadow stayed –</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">never enwreathed,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">left the green </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">that came to be around us</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">standing not ending,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">growing not gone?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Do all forms close? close</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">in, wall out? Is there embrace</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">that leaves the open in,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-- Lloyd Haft</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-40301674945644711232018-01-03T16:09:00.002+08:002018-01-03T16:15:09.976+08:00聖詠新繹兩首<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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--<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">漢樂逸撰,蘇桂枝譯</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; line-height: 115%;">聖詠新繹第</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">23</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; line-height: 115%;">首</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">視物者知我</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">識我缺如</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">在曠野雜叢中</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">輕吟着安詳</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">在川流不息裏</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">歷粗礦似真理</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">視吾心一體:</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">我屬於祂</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">儘管行走幽谷</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">面臨死亡憧影</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">我不畏分離</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">因祢知我</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">承襲祢之路</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">身陷詆譭時刻</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">啓我脣</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">我終日真摯</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">持光而行</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">蒙祢永居於此</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">聖詠新繹第</span>27<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun";">首</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">讓我的顫慄是祢出現的能量。</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">有如被強大敵軍圍繞</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">我心,孤自等候。</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">呈現祢的潔美。</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">願在我盲目找尋中</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 14.0pt;">願生前祢還見到我。</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-88061246508831233872017-10-09T11:57:00.000+08:002018-02-06T18:53:29.636+08:00Twee Lieshoutse verzen (gedichten)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">achter zich het oog,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">oog dat ook na alle
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">toont, alle rui, alle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">rouw allang te boven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">oktober 2017</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-3274607094258879012016-12-07T22:49:00.000+08:002018-02-06T18:27:36.523+08:00KERAMISTE (gedicht)/ 女陶藝者<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Toen
je de klei raakte</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ging
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<h1>
<o:p> </o:p></h1>
<h1>
<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "pmingliu";"><span style="font-size: large;">女陶藝者</span></span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">作者:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lloyd Haft </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">漢樂逸</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">翻譯:蘇桂枝</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Katie Su<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-21646196613751037542016-10-09T23:17:00.000+08:002018-02-06T18:26:38.490+08:00Stroper (gedicht)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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kist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oktober 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ming Govaars (Dr.
M.T.N. Govaars-Tjia, 1922-2016) is onlangs op 93-jarige leeftijd overleden. Zij
was een wereldberoemde wetenschapper, een unieke persoonlijkheid, en een
inspirerend mens. Na haar overlijden werden annonces rondgestuurd waarop zij al
maanden tevoren met de hand een citaat had geschreven: ‘Het vuur rust in zijn
as’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Als iemand die haar al
sinds 1974 kende, had ik er geen vrede – geen ‘rust’ – mee dat dit haar laatste
woorden zouden zijn. Zij was geen type voor rust, als ideaal of in de praktijk.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Een van haar favoriete motto’s
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ik schreef in antwoord
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">mei 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[De volgende beknopte inleiding
werd in 1989-1990 geschreven door de onlangs overleden Ming Govaars (Dr. M.T.N.
Govaars-Tjia, 1922-2016). Het stuk was oorspronkelijke bedoeld voor publicatie in
een vooraanstaand Nederlands naslagwerk. Om redenen die niet meer te achterhalen
zijn, is het ongepubliceerd gebleven. Na het schrijven van dit stuk werkte mevr. Govaars
gedurende vele jaren aan haar proefschrift: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollands onderwijs in een koloniale samenleving: De Chinese ervaring in
Indonesië 1900-1942 </i>(eerste druk 1999, tweede druk 2002, Engelse vertaling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dutch Colonial Education: The Chinese Experience
in Indonesia, 1900-1942</i> in 2005 verschenen). Daarna hoopte zij een volgende
‘book-length study’ aan leven en werk van Henri Borel te wijden; dit projekt heeft
zij niet meer kunnen voltooien.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BOREL, Henri Jean
François, schrijver en criticus (Dordrecht 23-11-1869 – ’s-Gravenhage 31-8-1933).
Zoon van George Frederik Willem Borel, generaal-majoor der artillerie, en
Suzanne Elizabeth Marcella. Gehuwd op 8-6-1892 met Maria Christina Zur Haar.
Uit dit huwelijk werden 1 zoon en 1 dochter geboren. Na echtscheiding
(26-11-1902) gehuwd op 10-12-1902 met Helena Maria de Hartog. Uit dit huwelijk
werd 1 zoon geboren. Na echtscheiding (19-5-1908) gehuwd op 23-2-1911 met Anna
Maria Hufstadt. Uit dit huwelijk werd 1 dochter geboren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Borel bezocht de hbs te
’s-Gravenhage, Goes en Roermond. In 1887 slaagde hij voor het examen ter vervulling
van een der drie vacatures voor de opleiding tot tolk in de Chinese taal,
waarvoor zich 63 kandidaten hadden aangemeld. Hij studeerde van 1888 tot 1892
aan de Leidse Universiteit Chinese taal- en letterkunde bij G. Schlegel. In
september 1892 vertrok Borel voor twee jaar naar China om zich op het eiland Ku
Lang Su verder te bekwamen in het Chinees. Tijdens zijn verblijf in China
publiceerde de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant</i>
zijn eerste journalistiek werk in de vorm van brieven over de in 1894
uitgebroken Chinees-Japanse oorlog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Borels eerste benoeming tot tolk voor de Chinese taal in
dienst van het Nederlands-Indische gouvernement was op 24 oktober 1894. Deze op
die wijze begonnen ambtelijke loopbaan zou een aaneenschakeling van
moeilijkheden met de regering en botsingen met plaatselijke autoriteiten
worden. Spoedig als ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken betiteld schroomde Borel niet
wonde plekken aan te wijzen, wantoestanden, corruptie en onrecht te signaleren,
en zijn rapporten daarover vielen bij de regering niet altijd in goede aarde.
Intussen nam de Indische pers onthullende artikelen van hem op. ‘Men is in
Batavia woedend op me. Het publiek maken van wandaden is het ergste wat je kunt
doen, de wandaden zelf niet’, schreef hij op 29 februari 1896 aan Frederik van
Eeden. Op zijn kritische uitlatingen over A.L. van Hasselt, resident van Riouw
en Onderhorigheden, waarover de regering haar ernstige ontevredenheid betuigde,
volgde Borels benoeming op 1 oktober 1896 tot ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken te
Makassar. Hier wachtte hem een periode van nieuwe strubbelingen en conflicten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mede geïnspireerd door zijn aanrakingen met Oost-Azië was
Borel ook literair werkzaam. In Nederlandse literaire tijdschriften als <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Gids</i> werden zijn verzen en essays
gepubliceerd, en een eerste boek over <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wijsheid
en schoonheid uit China</i> (1895), dat verscheidene herdrukken beleefde, had
ook een literair-leesbaar gemaakte inslag. Hierin wijdde hij niet alleen
aandacht aan bijv. toneel en begrafenisgebruiken maar ook aan ‘Wu Wei’, dat hij
omschreef als ‘een fantasie naar aanleiding van Lao Tse’s filosofie’
(letterlijk: niet-handelen, d.w.z. niet opzettelijk handelen). Hij zou later op
dit voor hem zo geliefde thema telkens terugkomen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In dezelfde lijn van zijn eerste boek lag de uitgave,
waar Borel nog in Indië een begin mee maakte, over <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Chineesche filosofie toegelicht voor niet-sinologen</i>; het eerste
deel over Confucius zag in 1896 het licht, het tweede deel over Lao Tse in
1898, terwijl in 1931 pas het derde deel over Mencius zou verschijnen. De
boeken vormden de eerste oorspronkelijke Nederlandse vertalingen direct uit het
Chinees van teksten van deze filosofen en trachtten met commentaar een breed
lezerspubliek te bereiken. In dat opzicht zou hij, gezien de vele herdrukken
van dit en ander werk, succes hebben. Juist voor Nederland met zijn koloniën
vond Borel een helder begrip omtrent China en de Chinezen dringend nodig. Hij
aarzelde niet scherpe kritiek uit te oefenen op bekende Nederlandse sinologen
omdat zij aan deze popularisering zijns inziens te weinig meewerkten. Met zijn <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Het Daghet in den Oosten</i>” (1910),
waarin hij reeds de Chinese revolutie van 1911 voorspelde, en <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De geest van China</i> (1916) zou Borel
eigen streven trouw blijven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Reeds vroeg tijdens zijn Indische loopbaan had Borel ook
voor de inheemse kunst een lans gebroken: in zijn publikaties zoals <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wijsheid en schoonheid</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">uit Indië</i> (1905), en in zijn tweede
bundel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Opstellen</i> (1906) had hij
tevens het eerste waarachtige inzicht in de Javaanse dans en de wajang getoond.
Gerard Brom zou later opmerken (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Java in
onze kunst</i> (Rotterdam, 1931) 175-178, 222-225) dat Borel over de gamelan en
de Javaanse dans geschreven had met een oorspronkelijkheid die zijn verdienste
voor de Indische kunst van blijvende waarde deed zijn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In deze Indische jaren leverde Borel, afgezien van verzen
en essays, in ander opzicht literair werk met zijn eerste roman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het jongetje</i> (1898), een verhaal over de
schuchtere liefde van een opgroeiende knaap voor zijn aanbeden meisje. Hoewel
uitgekreten als week, sentimenteel en geen literatuur, was het een veelgelezen
boek. Een Duitse vertaling verscheen onder de titel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Junge Liebe</i> (1907). In de liefdesroman <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Een droom</i> (1899), met een dichterlijke beschrijving van het
bergland Tosari op Java, liet Borel volgens de letterkundige Charles van
Deventer het verre Holland met Indië meevoelen: ‘En dit werd een nieuwe
verovering van Java genoemd, waardoor het Oosten een heiligdom kreeg in ons
hart’. (Gerard Brom, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Java in onze kunst</i>,
178.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Na zijn diensttijd in Makassar (1896-1898) was Borel als
ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken te Soerabaia werkzaam. Eind 1899 kreeg hij wegens
ziekte een tweejarig verlof naar Europa, welk verlof met enkele verlengingen
tot 1903 zou duren. Hij verbond zich contractueel met een uitgever om tweemaal
per jaar een roman te schrijven. Zo produceerde hij de zg. contractromans als
o.a. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vlindertje, Een Haagse roman</i> (1901).
Deze periode heeft Borel als de onwaardigste van zijn literair leven beschouwd;
hij heeft zichzelf nooit vergeven romanfabrikant te zijn geweest. In 1903 zag
hij zijn dwaling in en ging hij opnieuw als ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken naar
Indië terug, waar Tandjong-Pinang zijn standplaats werd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In 1904 gaf de regering Borel opdracht na te gaan hoe de
koelie-ordonnantie werkte. Dit leidde tot nieuwe conflicten. Borel, niet
tevreden met wat men hem wilde laten zien, stelde een zelfstandig onderzoek in
en trof in de tinmijnen van Singkep ergerlijke toestanden aan. Hij legde zijn
bevindingen neer in een rapport, dat in Buitenzorg groot opzien verwekte en volgens
een persbericht uit 1933 tot die dag geheim was gebleven. Borel moest met
‘ziekteverlof’ naar Nederland en zag zich met ingang van 2 augustus 1904 eervol
uit zijn betrekking ontslagen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In 1905 zond gouverneur-generaal J.B. van Heutsz aan
Borel een telegram. Borel zou Semarang als standplaats krijgen indien hij naar
Indië terugkeerde. Voor een ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken was Semarang een
standplaats van betekenis; bovendien beschouwde Borel het telegram van de
gouverneur-generaal als een soort rehabilitatie. De arbeid op zichzelf was hem
lief, en daarom trok hij vol goede moed ten derden male naar de tropen, waar
hij midden in de toen opgekomen jong-Chinese Beweging viel. Voor deze beweging
had Borel – en met hem bekende ambtsdragers als P.H. Fromberg (Justitie) en
L.H.W. van Sandick (Binnenlands Bestuur) – waardering. Hij had sympathie voor
deze jong-Chinese beweging ‘in zoover deze sociale en intellectueele
verlichting en opheffing onzer Chineesche medebroeders beteekent. Ik zou in
denzelfden zin sympathie hebben met een jong-Javaansche, of dergelijke
beweging, ten doel hebbend de verlichting en opheffing van een Oostersch volk,
en deze sympathie is gebaseerd op wat ééns Jezus Christus, en vóór hem reeds
Confucius uitsprak: dat alle menschen broeders zijn’ (zie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Verslagen der algemeene vergaderingen Indisch Genootschap</i> (1913)
180). Ook te Semarang lag Borel overhoop met de bestuursautoriteiten, en op 21
augustus 1908 volgde zijn benoeming tot ambtenaar voor Chinese Zaken te
Pontianak (westerafdeling van Borneo). In Pontianak begon Borel zich het
Mandarijn-Chinees eigen te maken. Daartoe verbleef hij van 1909 tot 1910 in
Peking. Op 7 november 1911 verleende de regering hem de persoonlijke titel van
Adviseur voor Chinese Zaken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In het begin van 1912 vonden te Batavia en vooral te
Soerabaia de zg. Chinezenrelletjes plaats, gevolgd door Borels overplaatsing
naar Makassar, wegens onenigheden van hem met de resident van Soerabaia. Deze
overplaatsing trok overigens de aandacht van de Tweede Kamer, die van minister
van Koloniën J.H. de Waal Malefijt wel het rapport van de resident kreeg te
lezen, maar niet dat van Borel. Van bepaalde kanten kreeg Borel hier zelfs
wegens de moed van zijn overtuiging lof toegezwaaid. Toen Borel in 1913 met
buitenlands verlof in Nederland was kon hij, als bekend deskundige omtrent
China en de Chinezen in Indië, optreden. Nog in hetzelfde jaar verschenen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Chineesche beweging in Ned.-Indië</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Chineesche Republiek</i> en <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Een werkkring in Indië</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bij Borel rijpte intussen het besluit niet in Indische
dienst te blijven. In zijn ‘Autobiografie en autocritiek’(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het Vaderland</i>, 23-11-1929) zou hij nog later uitleggen welke
bezwaren hij had tegen die dienst, vooral in verband met het voor hem
onbevredigende Chinezen-beleid van het gouvernement. Na zijn terugkeer in
Nederland verloor hij in 1916 bij een ongeluk een deel van zijn
gezichtsvermogen en kon hij op zijn verzoek eervol ontslag uit de Indische
dienst krijgen. Nog eenmaal bracht hij in 1920 aan China een bezoek, waarvan <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het schone eiland. Een tweede boek van
wijsheid en schoonheid uit China</i> (1922) de neerslag was. Maar ook daarna
verloor Borel zijn liefde en aandacht voor China niet, al beklaagde hij zich
achteraf er te weinig tijd voor te hebben gehad: ‘Door omstandigheden, die
niets met mijn kennis van het Chineesch te maken hebben, ben ik niet in staat
gesteld, toen ik uit Indië terugkwam, mij verder geheel aan de sinologische
studie te wijden, en, waarom zou ik het niet eerlijk zeggen, dit is de groote
teleurstelling van mijn leven.’ (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het
Vaderland</i>, 23-11-1929.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Een van die omstandigheden waarop Borel ongetwijfeld
doelde was zijn aanstelling als criticus voor toneel en literatuur aan het
dagblad <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het Vaderland</i> op 1 november
1916, een functie die hij tot zijn dood in 1933 zou behouden. Hij schreef
recensies en literaire beschouwingen. Als criticus kende hij vriend noch
vijand. Hij geloofde dat hij zijn kritische geest te danken had aan zijn vader,
die als kapitein der artillerie in diens <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Onze
vestiging in Atjeh</i> (’s-Gravenhage, 1878) beleid en tactiek van generaal J.
van Swieten scherp had veroordeeld.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ook in losse publikaties, dus buiten zijn krant, hield
Borel zich met letterkundige onderwerpen intensief bezig. Zo bezorgde hij
enkele vertalingen en bewerkingen van Europese literatuur. Voor Frederik van
Eeden koesterde hij een grote bewondering; hij vertaalde in 1933 diens <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Welt-Eroberung durch Helden-Liebe</i>
(Berlin [etc.], 1911) in het Nederlands. Voor het ‘l’art pour l’lart’ van de
Tachtigers had hij weinig waardering; enigszins in de lijn van de door hem
gewaardeerde Louis Couperus volgde hij liever zijn eigen weg. Pierre H. Dubois
schreef over Borel bij zijn honderdste geboortejaar (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Het Vaderland</i>, 28-11-1969) dat Borel ‘niet het begrip en de
waardering heeft gehad, waarop hij voor een deel van zijn werk en zijn
persoonlijkheid toch aanspraak mocht maken’. Dit is begrijpelijk, want Borel
huldigde als sinoloog, als Indisch ambtenaar én als literator-criticus
opvattingen die vaak indruisten tegen die van zijn tijdgenoten en superieuren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">--M.T.N. Govaars-Tjia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9 januari 1990 </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In an earlier post,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
I went on record saying I am in favor of reading a long poem in radically
abridged form. My example was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asphodel,
That Greeny Flower</i> by William Carlos Williams. I said the version contained
in the 1968 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selected Poems of William
Carlos Williams</i>,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
which entirely omits the second and third ‘books’ of this long poem, retaining
only the first book and the Coda, is more ‘incisive’ and more memorably
‘unique’ than the original which is more than twice as long.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Recently
I have had a similar reading experience, again involving a long poem by
Williams. This past summer at a used-book store in Madison, Wisconsin, I bought
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems</i>,
published by New Directions in 1985 and edited by Charles Tomlinson. Unlike the
earlier volume, this edition contains an extensive selection from Williams’
book-length poem <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am
calling the selection ‘extensive,’ but this does not at all mean it is anything
near the length of the original! The edition of the original I own, the ‘eighth
Paperbook printing,’ is some 240 pages long.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
In Tomlinson’s selected version, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i>
is represented by only 38 pages – less than one-sixth. If we look not at the
total number of pages but at the proportional bulk of each of the five ‘books,’
the reduction is even more striking. The fifth book is represented by no more
than a single page. The fourth book, comprising 56 pages in the original, again
has been cut back to a single page. The third, originally 51 pages, is now two
and a half. In other words, the last three books, which together occupied about
two-thirds of the original, now make up less than one-eighth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is
interesting, but also fruitless, to speculate as to why Tomlinson chose to
truncate the later parts so radically. Opinions differ as to whether Williams
did the right thing by adding a fifth book long after the first four had
already been published; what cannot be denied is that the fifth book alters,
re-unifies and refocuses the whole. Williams’ biographer Paul Mariani calls the
fifth book ‘an extended meditation on the woman, the counterpoise of the male
sensibility...’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
and goes on to say that its ‘central icon’ is ‘the Virgin holding the Baby.’<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
Absolutely nothing of the kind can be detected in the tiny shard preserved by
Tomlinson. Nor is there the least remnant of the (to my mind) superb ending of
the original fifth book:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We know nothing and can no nothing</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>but</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the dance, to dance to a measure</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">contrapuntally,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">– in which the ‘foot,’ bringing together the main
preoccupations of Williams’ later poetry, undoubtedly refers both to a
physiological ‘foot’ involved in a mating ‘dance’ and to a ‘foot’ as the
metrical focus of poetry.</span></div>
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if I think it’s a shame that Tomlinson’s selection omits the new emphasis on
the feminine and the imagination, a question arises: are those elements really
prominent in the original text, or have I grown accustomed to seeking and finding
them there because of scholarly books I have read about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i>? If I had not read books like Jerome Mazzaro’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">William Carlos Williams: The Later Poems</i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>
and Sherman Paul’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Music of Survival</i>,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
would I naturally have thought the fifth book of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i> belonged in a group of late contemplative poems which
includes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asphodel</i> and “The Desert
Music”?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m
just not sure. What I am prepared to say without hesitation is that cutting out
most of the third book is all to the good. I would say the same for the fourth.
In fact, in thinking of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i> as a
whole, I can never forget what Samuel Johnson said about Milton’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paradise Lost</i>: ‘none ever wished it
longer than it is.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I guess what I am actually doing is reading the fifth
book of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paterson</i> not as an integrated
text in itself, but as a collection of ‘links’ or ‘tabs’ evoking echoes of
related words and ideas which actually occur in other late works by Williams.
My interest is not in the continuous text on the printed page, but in these
scattered clues which bring in overtones. To me, those overtones compensate
for, in my appreciation actually supersede, the frankly less interesting or less
good sections of the actual text. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In other words, for a reader like me who prefers
memorably ‘incisive’ to bewilderingly bulky....viewing Williams’ work as a
whole, it is true that Less is More. But in order to know what less to read,
you have to have first read much more...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">December 2015</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">‘On Translating Gorter’s
Lyrics’ (1): <a href="http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2014/02/on-translating-gorters-lyrics.html">http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2014/02/on-translating-gorters-lyrics.html</a></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> New York: New Directions. This
edition contains an introduction by Randall Jarrell. The selection of the later
poems is said to have been made by ‘Mrs. Williams and a committee of editorial
advisers.’</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">New York: New Directions.
Though the information given in the front matter on publishing history is
formidably complex, I believe myself to have deciphered that this edition as a
whole was published in 1963.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">Paul Mariani, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked</i>.
New York etc.: McGraw-Hill, 1981, p. 645.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1044234668127117462#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mariani, p. 708.</span></div>
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Cornell University Press, 1973.<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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University of Illinois Press, 1968.<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Leaving the very
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in countersign
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">staying more
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">rather tall than
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">better with than
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">rather along.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I am seen in
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of all the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surrounding.<br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. <i>The stone will never ask me what I am, or if
I am.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Over I stand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Behold the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">here in the not
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">open that is
own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Standing out
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">here against the
setting sun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">here against all
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6. <i>Blessed are they that stand.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So be I ever,
seeming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in a distance
that is near,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">touching on
whatever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is to touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">with in waiting,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">waiting in the
wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">for more of wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">--Lloyd Haft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">October 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/RisenRockBlogYin.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This
is my English version of a poem I originally published in Dutch in <i>De gids</i> 2011: 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For the Dutch
version, see <a href="http://www.athenaeum.nl/boek-van-de-nacht/gids-2011-4">http://www.athenaeum.nl/boek-van-de-nacht/gids-2011-4</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For Katie Su’s
Chinese version, see <a href="http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2015/09/blog-post.html">http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2015/09/blog-post.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-28094306925161554432015-09-27T21:37:00.000+08:002015-09-28T21:10:23.645+08:00Me and the Japanese Language<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">(Scraps from a Sinological Scrapbook<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "PMingLiU","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">漢齋閒情異誌</span><span lang="EN-US">,
fragment 29)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not long ago, one day my wife and I both
woke up before dawn.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> ‘What time is it?’
she asked.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> ‘Four-ten.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Question and answer
were both in Japanese.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Trivial as that
little exchange may sound, to me it was a watershed. It meant that I had
finally resumed a focus, picked up a thread, that had been waiting in the
margins of my life for sixty years. By having a Japanese-speaking wife and by
saying a few words to her in that language, I was fulfilling a wish that I had
expressed on another continent at the age of seven. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> My first contact
with Japanese was in the mid-1950s in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state></st1:place>.
My parents and I were living in a wooded neighborhood next door to an American
scholar, his Japanese wife, and their toddler son. One summer afternoon in
their back yard, I was terrifically impressed to hear this American guy suddenly
talking Japanese. What he was saying to his wife Akiko might have been no more
than ‘Should I take the clothes in now?’ – but to me it was a magical formula,
a language of the gods, transforming a banal situation into a scene of timeless
color and romance.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Akiko was the first
person to bring me into contact with Chinese characters.<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> One day she sat down with
me and read me a story out of a Japanese children’s book, sight-translating
from those beautifully illustrated pages with their long vertical lines of
exotic script. I felt a terrific envy for her toddler son Karl, who was being
brought up to speak and understand Japanese. I suddenly decided to start coming
over as often as possible. I actually asked Akiko if she would teach me Japanese
‘together with Karl.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Soon afterward, my
family moved out of the woods in <st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state> and
into a city in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:place></st1:state>.
The ambient foreign language became French, and we actually had some awfully
superficial French lessons in school, but I soon discovered I was more
interested in playing baseball than in studying. Domination by the instincts
had begun. Competition. The ‘school of hard knocks.’ The playing field with its
straight lines and uniforms. Slugging and scrapping for a place as a ‘big man’
in society. And so it would continue for half a century. But the seeds of
timeless fascination, and their association with Japanese, had been sown.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Perhaps it was, in
retrospect, not surprising that the field of study which eventually became my
profession – Chinese, has the reputation of being the most difficult of all.
Maybe part of my attraction to Chinese – aside from the beautiful poetry and
beautiful women – was that it was the intellectual equivalent of a Bowl Game,
an arena in which brain could knock heads with brain and only an All-Star had a
chance. Physically, I knew I would never be a Babe Ruth. But mentally... </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Some years later,
when I was just finishing up as a graduate student at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Leiden</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
in The Netherlands, there was a sudden vacancy in the Chinese Department and I
was offered a teaching job. Nobody was more amazed than myself. It had never
occurred to me that someday I would ‘use’ my Chinese for anything so worldly as
to earn money. I had always assumed someday I would teach Dutch children
English for a livelihood and then go home at night to do what I really wanted
to do, which was to learn more Chinese.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> I had to decide
right away, and I said yes. I have never really regretted that decision, but in
the long run it did change my feelings toward the Chinese language. Starting in
1973, I was a full-time staff member in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Leiden</st1:place></st1:city>.
In my new job, the pressures that were on me could not have been called serious,
but being a perfectionist, I felt under pressure nevertheless. Before long I
began to associate the Chinese language itself with the tensions and
obligations of the ‘on-the-job’ situation. If I glanced at a Chinese newspaper
and could not understand a headline, rather than this being just another
interesting challenge, it became a threat. I started to feel guilty for not
knowing the language perfectly. After all, I was now a professional, paid
teacher! Soon I began, like every bourgeois office clerk or shopgirl, to look
forward to the weekend and to be glad when five o’clock rolled around. What I
had first loved to do, I now ‘had to’ do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the case of
Japanese, there never was such a division between my ‘life’ and my ‘self.’ The
language itself was never wrenched away from my personal realm of musings and meanings
into an alien area of Philistine worries. It remained in a still-possible,
still-to-come state, and there it waited for sixty years. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Even that phrase, ‘sixty years,’ is
significant here. In <st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>
as well as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
there is an ancient tradition of sixty
being considered the number of years in one full human life cycle. Not so long
ago in Japan, a person celebrating their sixtieth birthday would actually wear clothes
or colors symbolically suggesting a baby’s clothes – the idea being that you were
being born all over again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my own life as I now look back on it, ‘sixty
years’ was the period during which I was continually being forced to adapt to
society and its demands. When I was about seven, my family moved out of the woods
and into the town with its herd and its hedges. When I was sixty-seven, my wife
joined me in retirement and there was no longer any definite ‘public’ pressure
in either of our lives. Surely it was no coincidence that right after turning
sixty-eight, I suddenly felt a mighty impulse to get back to learning Japanese.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Is Japanese difficult to learn? According to
Arthur Waley, one of the most famous translators from Oriental literature, not
so very. In the introduction to his little-known <i>Japanese Poetry: The
‘Uta,’</i> he writes: ‘The translations in this book are chiefly intended
to facilitate the study of the Japanese text; for Japanese poetry can only be
rightly enjoyed in the original. And since the classical language has an easy
grammar and limited vocabulary, a few months should suffice for the mastering
of it.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, that sounds easy enough! But as other
contexts show, Arthur Waley was not above indulging in a bit of intellectual
show-offery. In his preface to<i>The Secret History of the Mongols and Other
Pieces</i>, he actually says: ‘Despite the fact that in this book I translate
from Chinese, Japanese, Ainu, Mongol and Syriac, I do not want to give the
impression that I am a master of many languages. Chinese and Japanese I do know
fairly well...’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For a different and perhaps more plausible
opinion, we may turn to the wise words of Arthur Rose-Innes, whose dictionary
and textbooks have guided generations of students. In the ‘introductory
remarks’ to Part II of his five-part <i>First Steps in Japanese Reading</i>,
he writes: ‘As many of the characters and combinations of the characters may be
read in more than one way the beginner may be surprised at the amount of
guessing that has to be done: but it is well that he should exercise from the
very beginning that faculty of guessing aright which, as Chamberlain says, is
a <i>sine qua non</i> to the student of Japanese all through his
career...Before going very far the student may come to the conclusion that the
Japanese written language, though very interesting, is one immense muddle; and
that, in the absence of logic, the only way to learn it, is by the process
known as muddling through. Be that as it may, let him be sure that he will not
make much progress except by hard work and perseverance.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In short: ‘Not fare well, but fare forward, voyagers!’
This is a far cry from Waley’s suggestion that one need only ‘learn the
Japanese syllabary and some (perhaps about 600) of the commoner Chinese
characters’ to be able to ‘use the native texts.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
By the way, a Japanese schoolchild would be well into the fifth grade of
elementary school before being officially required to know as many as 600
characters. Let me just add in passing that ‘the Japanese syllabary,’ an
alphabet-like series of phonetic signs used to spell words or parts of words, itself
comprises more than a hundred symbols which must be learned by rote...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As for grammar and syntax, I think few students
would disagree with the description, laid down in 1928 by G. B. Sansom in his <i>Historical Grammar of Japanese</i>, of ‘...some
obscure characteristic in Japanese speech which impels those who use it to pile
one redundant verb upon another. It is a feature which will not have escaped
the notice of those who listen to orations where sentence after sentence ends
with some phrase like <i>de aru de arimasu</i>,
which literally stands for “being-is-being-is-is,” and can be adequately
rendered by the one word “is” in English.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sometimes the grammar seems difficult not because
it is a ‘muddle’ but for the opposite reason: that it is somehow burdensomely
logical and over-analytical, as when ‘I’ve been to Kyoto’ comes out as ‘the
fact of having gone to Kyoto exists,’ or at the table when ‘please pass me the
salt’ becomes ‘do bestow getting the salt.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And what about the phenomenally complex problem of
the so-called polite forms, such that not only the choice of words but even the
grammatical forms constantly depend on one’s judgment as to the status
relations between oneself and the interlocutor? In all the Japanese textbooks I
have used or browsed, my favorite quote on this is: ‘Another common honorific
verb is <i>irassharu</i>, which has more
honorific value than precise verbal meaning. It expresses the vague idea of the
existence of a person either in motion or at rest and consequently can be
translated “to go,” “to come,” or “to be”.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the other hand, some of the difficulties
students complain about really are rather exaggerated. For example: remembering
the Japanese names of the days of the week. True, at first sight <i>kayoobi</i> and <i>suiyoobi</i> don’t seem inherently very suggestive of ‘Tuesday’ and ‘Wednesday.’
But this can be overcome by simply carrying out a few simple steps. First, take
a course in French and stick with it until you know the days of the week by
heart. This will give you the information that Tuesday, <i>mardi</i>, has the mythological or astrological association of being ‘Mars
day’ while Wednesday, <i>mercredi</i>, is
associated with Mercury, etc. Knowing these links between the ancient European
gods and the successive days will turn out to be crucial in getting the Japanese
weekdays right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Next, go to your local university library, check
out the second volume of Joseph Needham’s <i>Science
and Civilization in China</i>, make a photocopy of page 262, ignore the top
half of the chart, and memorize the table of associations of the Ancient
Chinese ‘elements’ with the ‘planets.’ Keep in mind that the English name of each
‘planet’ corresponds to the ancient Roman god of the same name, which you now
have learned in French. From there, you can easily work out that in ancient
East Asian tradition, Mars is associated with ‘fire’ and Mercury with ‘water,’
and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After that, every time you see the Japanese days
of the week written in Chinese characters, you will plainly see that <i>kayoobi</i> is the ‘fire’ or ‘Mars’ day,
hence <i>mardi</i> or Tuesday; <i>suiyoobi</i> is the ‘water’ or ‘Mercury’
day, thus <i>mercredi</i> or Wednesday, and
so on. It remains true that in spoken Japanese <i>ka</i> is not the ordinary word for ‘fire,’ nor <i>sui</i> for ‘water’; these are actually ancient Chinese words in an
archaic Japanese transcription, but this is nit-picking. Ignore it. Ignore also
the fact that the element <i>yoo</i> in
these words is written with a distinct Chinese character which Japanese-English
dictionaries define simply as ‘part of the names of the days of the week.’ Actually,
historically it means ‘bright,’ so that Tuesday is actually ‘fire’s bright day’
and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A breeze, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Another problem, this time
definitely a real one, is how to read Japanese names aloud when they are
written, as they usually are, in Chinese characters. Since characters
ordinarily have more than one possible pronunciation depending on meaning,
custom and who knows what else...how can you be sure you are reading a person’s
name correctly?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> The bad news here is that quite
often you simply can’t. The good news is that neither can the Japanese.
Basically, you just have to know, whether by being tipped off by an insider
or...though this is not foolproof...by looking the name up in one of the
special name dictionaries giving attested readings of attested names.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Traditionally in Europe, the advice
given to students of Japanese was to first learn enough Russian to be familiar
with the Cyrillic alphabet, then find a way to buy a copy of the 1207-page <i>Slovar’ Yaponskikh Imyon i Famil’yiy</i>
(Dictionary of Japanese names and surnames) published in Moscow in 1958, and
then...look up to your heart’s content!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> English-speaking readers got what seemed
like a big break in 1972 with the publication of P. G. O’Neill’s <i>Japanese Names: A Comprehensive Index by
Characters and Readings</i>. But the author himself in his preface says: ‘There
is no final or complete solution to the problems of reading Japanese names
written in Chinese characters. Such characters usually have special name
readings which...have to be learned separately. Virtually all these characters
have more than one recognized name reading, and may have other unpredictable
ones as well...It is therefore not surprising that, faced with such complexity,
the Japanese should regard possible but mistaken readings with equanimity. It
is usually only in speech, however, that they have to commit themselves to a
particular reading of a name, for, when writing in their own language, they can
leave the name in the obscurity of its characters.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> O’Neill’s dictionary is ‘only’ 359
fine-print pages long. So far I have never been disappointed in using it, but
still, I keep the Russian tome at hand just in case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Well, to sum up after all these
by-ways...yes, Japanese really is difficult!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Then the question is, at least in
some people’s minds...I know because they have asked me...why do you want to
spend your retirement working at anything so difficult?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> The answer is that in studying
Japanese, I am pursuing my own dream. I am not straining to fulfill someone
else’s. Undoubtedly, by ordinary academic standards my knowledge of the
language is still ludicrously inadequate, but my dream is not subject to
limitation by other people’s notions of ‘adequacy.’ There is no particular
level that I need to attain. If I can say ‘Should I take the clothes in now,’ I
am already doing fine. If I can say ‘four-ten in the morning’ to my wife now, I
am back where I was with Akiko sixty years ago. I am back home in the realm of
the timeless...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">August 2015</span></div>
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and her esoteric or ‘archetypical’ role in my life have already figured in a
previous post on this blog called ‘When Is Bamboo Where?’ – see <a href="http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2014/04/when-is-bamboo-where.html">http://lhaftblog.blogspot.nl/2014/04/when-is-bamboo-where.html</a></span></div>
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published in 1919.</span></div>
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B. Sansom, <i>An Historical Grammar of
Japanese</i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Oxford</st1:city></st1:place>:
Clarendon Press, 1928, p. 208.</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/L.L.Haft/Documents/2015%20LLOYD/BlogTextsVaApr15/MeAndJapaneseBlogYin.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> Serge
Elisséef, Edwin O. Reischauer and Takehiko Yoshihashi, <i>Elementary Japanese for College Students</i>, Part II: Vocabularies,
grammar and notes. <st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Press, 1963, p. 63.</span></div>
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Weatherhill, 1972/1979, p. vii.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">名爲</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">“</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">漂石</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,如人一般</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">迎我而來</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">來而再去。</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">共同倖存—</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">在此一起聳立</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">無以安詳。</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">在海岸穹蒼</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">佇立在浪頭。</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">頭顱內的眼眶,</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">石頭內的洞—</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">目視爲一。</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">與我執之</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></b>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">內心的堅毅持續指</span><span lang="ZH-TW" style="font-family: "pmingliu" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: PMingLiU;">著</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">一起對峙所有的背景。</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">看來像碑</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">石柱排除顛倒,</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">抵擋諸水般之</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">老朽沉落。</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">.</span></div>
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<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: "simsun"; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">罄竹難書:</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-46674664992032407352015-05-12T12:00:00.000+08:002015-05-14T23:30:11.223+08:00T’ai Chi Chih: Lineage or Lone Star?<div class="MsoNormal">
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from a Sinological Scrapbook </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 13.5pt;">漢齋閒情異誌</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, fragment 28)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> For some years now I
have been practicing T’ai Chi Chih, and like many who have studied it and kept
up with it, I have benefited in health and spirit. Unlike most, however, I also
studied Chinese at the university and went on to spend years in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Knowledge
of the language, and the experience of studying tai chi for several years with
a Taiwan-Chinese teacher, gave me access to a very different perspective on the
tai chi-related disciplines in general, and on T’ai Chi Chih in particular.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> By saying this and contextualizing
T’ai Chi Chih in this way at the outset, I am making a statement. I am saying I
beg to differ with the standard publicity image of T’ai Chi Chih (hereinafter
TCC). That view would have us believe TCC just dropped down from the sky in
1974; it is unique; it had no important antecedents. Justin F. Stone, the ‘originator,’
experienced ‘intuitive flashes’ and devised the various movements based on
them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> I believe that account,
though it contains truths, is one-sided and misleading. It ignores, or has been
ignorant of, some conclusions that I have drawn based on research into Justin
Stone’s own books and some relevant books in Chinese.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> I own three successive
editions of Stone’s instruction manual titled <i>T’ai Chi Chih!</i><a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Their publication history is complicated, but the first printing of each seems
to have been in 1974, 1984, and 1996 respectively. For convenience, rather than
repeating the title I will refer to them simply as ‘1974,’ ‘1984,’ and ‘1996.’ Giving
us three quick-freezes in time, each appearing some years after its
predecessor, they enable us to piece together a more nuanced version of what I
believe actually happened. In particular, the introductory material, forewords,
and prefaces contain valuable hints.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> To begin with the original
handbook which came out in 1974, the first thing that meets the eye is the
prominent role played by Wen-Shan Huang. Huang is the volume’s dedicatee –
Stone calls him ‘my friend and teacher’ – and is also the author of an
extensive foreword placing TCC in the context of various Chinese concepts and practices.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Huang, whose name would
now normally be written Huang Wenshan (</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">黃文山</span><span lang="EN-US">), lived from about 1898 to 1988 (sources differ). Unlike many other
guiding lights of what was then called the Human Potential Movement, he was
highly educated and held high academic credentials as an anthropologist. Aside
from his scholarly work, he had studied tai chi in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and had learned from some of
the most famous masters including Dong Yingjie, Zheng Manqing, T. T. Liang, Da
Liu, and Xiong Yanghe.<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Huang had been Justin Stone’s tai chi teacher in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. Stone himself also taught tai
chi – I am referring to what most people nowadays understand as ‘tai chi,’
which in Chinese is called <i>taiji quan</i>
or in the older transcription <i>t’ai chi ch’üan</i>
– for many years before the advent of his own TCC system. I will detail this
shortly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Very clearly, Huang
places Justin Stone’s system in the context of existing Chinese disciplines. He
says: ‘T’ai Chi Chih, or any other forms of the exercise of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Inner</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>...derived
their basic idea from T’ai Chi Ch’uan.’ More specifically, on the first page of
his preface Huang explains ‘T’ai Chi Chih’ as meaning ‘T’ai Chi Ruler.’ (‘Ruler’
in this context means ‘footrule’ or ‘foot-long piece of wood.’ The reference is
to a sort of stick about a foot long, which in the Orient is held between the
hands during certain exercises to keep the hands equidistant. In the
transcription used in those days, technically called the Wade-Giles
Transcription, actually the Chinese word for ‘footrule,’ </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">尺</span><span lang="EN-US">, should have been written <i>ch’ih</i> and not <i>chih</i>, and the name of the whole discipline should have been spelled
<i>t’ai chi ch’ih</i>, but those apostrophes
were often omitted.) Huang writes: ‘My friend, Mr. T. T. Ching, who was
taught...by Chao Chung Tao in 1957, in Peking, has maintained a Taoist Center
in Hong Kong in recent years for the teaching of this exercise-discipline; I
was a member of this Center...Basing his studies upon the fundamental movements
of the Art, Mr. Stone, thru his own experiments and creation, has added many
new movements...’ In the Chinese-language Appendix C to his own book, Huang
specifically mentions </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">太極尺</span><span lang="EN-US"> or <i>t’ai chi ch’ih</i> as one
of the disciplines he himself had studied. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> As a little research in
internet sources and libraries in the Far East has shown, T. T. Ching
(1898-1975) was a teacher in <st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> whose
name written in Chinese characters is </span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">程達材</span><span lang="EN-US">.<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Starting
in the early 1960s he published several books on what he called ‘Tai Chi Ruler’
and indeed claimed to have learned from Chao Chung Tao (</span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">趙中道</span><span lang="EN-US">, in the modern transcription
Zhao Zhongdao) in 1957. (I have a book of Ching’s in Chinese dating from 1964,
as well as a more extensive later volume called <i>Xiantian qigong taiji chi quanshu</i></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">先天氣功太極尺全書</span><span lang="EN-US"> whose English title – the main text itself is in Chinese – is <i>The Book of Tai Chi Ruler with Complete
Details</i>.) Ching’s work and methods were known in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place> as well, via at least one
unauthorized reprint.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> I have not found any
specific evidence that Justin Stone himself ever studied with T. T. Ching. But
in his 1974 description of the movement that he calls Bass Drum (which aside
from lacking a wooden ‘ruler’ is virtually the same, including the crucial foot
and leg movements, as what Ching in Chinese called <i>yao chi</i> or Rotating the Ruler), Stone includes a footnote: ‘In
Taiwan a stick somewhat like a bone is held, so the two hands must remain
equidistant apart.’ This would seem to imply that Justin Stone at some stage had
seen Taiwanese students performing Ching’s version of this movement. Or perhaps
he had heard about this from Huang or someone else. In any case, at this point
in time Stone was not averse to publicly associating part of his own system
with a pre-existing set of exercises. (This and the bare-handed movement which
Ching called <i>mo yu</i> or Groping for
Fish, which Stone calls ‘Around the Platter,’ are now the standard first two
movements in the regular T’ai Chi Chih sequence.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">Comparing the 1984 revised edition with
the original book from 1974, at first sight we see mostly similarities. With a
few exceptions, the movements and postures described are the same, and for the
most part the descriptions and illustrations are unchanged. Turning to the
introductory material, however, we discern a striking new accent in the way the
book is now being presented to the world. The original preface by Huang,
unmistakably implying a direct link between Justin Stone’s system and the Tai
Chi Ruler which had already been taught in the 1950s by T. T. Ching, has been
entirely deleted. Stone’s ‘Instructional Introduction’ has been maintained, but
the wording of its first paragraph has become less modest. In 1974, Stone had
written: ‘The movements...are the results of many years of experimentation.
They represent an extension and development of the original movements taught by
a Chinese master. The important principles have been retained as the repertoire
has been expanded.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> In the 1984 revision,
this has been changed to: ‘The movements...are the results of many years of
experimentation. From a development of the original two movements shown me,
adding the leg motions and making other changes, I expanded and added eighteen
more...Drawing on my meditation experiences and T’ai Chi Ch’uan training, I
intuitively devised the other movements...’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> The ‘New Introduction’
to the revised volume also includes the snippet: ‘These are not ancient forms;
they were originated by me...’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> Another dramatically new
feature is that the system’s name, ‘T’ai Chi Chih,’ is now being construed to
have a different meaning in Chinese. Rather than ‘Chih’ being referred to the
Chinese character for ‘ruler’ as Huang had done, it is now said to be a
different character meaning ‘knowledge.’ The whole expression is said to mean ‘Knowledge
of the Supreme Ultimate.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> In the still newer and
extensively revised version which came out in 1996, the new stronger statements
of originality are maintained. The name is again ‘Knowledge of the Supreme
Ultimate,’ and once again there is no trace of Huang’s original preface. (The
revisions are mostly in the illustrations and instructions to the movements,
not the movements themselves.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">In the newer publicity material on TCC, Justin Stone is simply said
to have ‘originated’ the system in 1974. (See, for example, the brief biography
of Stone at the back of his 1996 volume, and later brief biographical summaries
on the internet.) The emphasis is less on the ‘many years of experimentation’;
indeed, the 1996 biography goes so far as to say that Stone originated the set ‘through
intuitive flashes’ in 1974.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> This
sudden-precipitation model does not quite tally with what Stone himself wrote
in his 1984 introduction (and repeated in 1996): ‘...I began, around 1969, to
experiment with my own forms based on the ancient principles. Having been
fortunate enough to learn several little-known movements from an old Chinese
man – movements practised in former days – I used these as the starting point
for my experiments...In 1974, Sun Publishing Company asked me to write a
book...and I began the laborious task of finishing and naming the nineteen
forms...’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> A bit of background on
this is to be found in an article on Stone in the <i>Albuquerque Journal</i> for 28 July 2005. There we read: ‘During a 1971
trip to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:place></st1:city>
to visit a friend, Stone wandered into a bookstore. The owner asked what he
did...“I said I teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan,” he recalled. That comment immediately
generated so much interest from the owner and customers that classes were soon
organized for Stone to lead...One of his students was a local book publisher
who asked Stone to write about T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Because a definitive text on
the subject had already been written by Huang, Stone was not keen on the idea.
Huang, however, had shown Stone three movements that Stone modified and used as
a warm-up...The publisher then suggested Stone write about these instead.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> ‘“It was just a few
movements, so there wasn’t much to write about, but then, over the course of
the next week, movements just started coming to me along with their names,”
Stone said.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What all this suggests is that (1) the precipitation of the forms
was not as sudden as all that, and (2) the inviting prospect of a publication
played a strong catalytic role in the ‘intuitive’ process.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> The year after Stone’s
book was first published, T. T. Ching died at age 77, not because he had been
neglecting his health by ‘rotating the ruler’ insufficiently, but as the result
of a traffic accident. It is interesting to speculate on what might have happened
if he had lived long enough to see the success and growth of Justin Stone’s
system after all references to him personally had been dropped. Would the two
Teachers have joined hands in a collaborative effort, perhaps through the
intermediary of Wen-Shan Huang, friend of both, who lived till 1988? Or would
there have developed a rivalry of the ‘only-my-school-is-orthodox’ type which
is so common in the <st1:place w:st="on">Far East</st1:place>?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> One also wonders
whether Stone’s mysterious ‘old Chinese man’ was Wen-Shan Huang himself...at
the time of Stone’s publication, he would have been in his seventies. Or was it
Tin Chin Lee, a Tai Chi master whom Stone met on a trip to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state></st1:place> in 1958?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> Does any of this
matter? To the present-day Western practitioner, of course not. Once you have
abandoned the idea that only something with an ‘ancient’ pedigree can be right,
what works for you is right for you.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> On the other hand,
although I am no longer a professional scholar – long since retired, I am now
as old as Justin Stone was when his revised edition with its revised claims
appeared – I am still enough of a scholar to enjoy sorting out old strands, old
clues, old loose ends. From this point of view, it is unfortunate that the
compilers of <i>Spiritual Odyssey: Selected
Writings of Justin F. Stone 1985-1997</i> were so un-scholarly as not to
provide source dates or details on the various pieces included in the volume.
On page 78 of that volume, in a section called ‘Comments on Newspaper Articles,’
Stone is quoted as writing: ‘Please don’t falsify and say to interviewers that
T’ai Chi Chih is a thousand years old, a well-kept court secret.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> The interesting thing
is that this is exactly what Wen-Shan Huang did say, at the very beginning of
his enthusiastic foreword to Justin Stone’s book. Interpreting ‘Tai Chi Chih’
as ‘Tai Chi Ruler,’ Huang wrote: ‘More than a thousand years ago, this
exercise...was kept as a secret known only to the clansmen of the Emperor. Mr.
Chao Chung Tao, who was the descendant of one of the Emperor’s clansmen, was
taught the secret...My friend, Mr. T. T. Ching...was taught the teaching, or
Imperial secret, by Chao Chung Tao in 1957...’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">Huang was probably, at that stage, trying
to help Justin Stone. In the Far East, if you are teaching a martial art or a
tai chi-related health discipline, the best thing is to claim that your method
is not original – no such thing, it is the authentic continuation of a school
whose unbroken tradition goes back many centuries. If you dare to set yourself
up as a Teacher, you are supposed to have a venerable background.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">In the West, the opposite holds. Only the
new is truly relevant. Especially in anything involving health, only a recent
discovery is really credible. I suspect that in the 1970s, thrilled at the
chance to get more attention for his method by publishing a book on it, Justin
Stone was perfectly glad to be endorsed, and placed in an old Oriental
tradition, by an eminent Teacher like Wen-Shan Huang. Later, perhaps feeling
more confident that he could make it on his own, he was Western enough to want
to emphasize his originality. Since then, most of his followers probably have
had no idea of what a Chinese reader would undoubtedly think of as the main
roots of the whole thing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> In sharing what I have
discovered, it is not my intention to detract unduly from Teacher Stone’s
reputation. If his methods are effective – and I say they are – then they are
legitimate regardless of their exact provenance. It is undoubtedly true that
most of the movements he taught were of his own devising. It is also
demonstrably true that some of the most basic ones, including the leg and foot
movements which Stone himself emphasizes are characteristic and essential, were
already being taught by his teacher’s teacher many years before.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">May 2015</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> Published respectively by Sun Publishing Company (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:city></st1:place>, 1974); Good Karma Publishing
(Fort Yates, Nevada 1994, but apparently a reprint of the ‘new revised edition’
by Satori Resources, 1984); and Good Karma Publishing (Boston, 2004 – the sixth
printing of a ‘second edition’ which originally appeared in 1996).</span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> This information is from the original 1973 <st1:place w:st="on">Hong
Kong</st1:place> edition of Huang’s massive illustrated handbook <i>Fundamentals of Tai Chi Ch’uan</i> (see the
Acknowledgements in English and Appendix C in Chinese). The book was reprinted
in 1974 with a new introduction by Laura Huxley, the wife of Aldous Huxley and
a widely known inspirational and self-help author in her own right. Four years
previously, Laura Huxley and Alan Watts had both written forewords to a much
briefer book on tai chi by Gia-fu Feng – surely one of the grand old books of
the Human Potential Movement! </span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> In the modern international Mandarin transcription this would be
Cheng Dacai, but I do not agree with the practice of automatically rewriting
Cantonese speakers’ names as if they were actually pronounced in Mandarin in
daily life.</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/KanSensei15/StoneLineage.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US"> The article as I have consulted it on the internet really does say
the ‘trip to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Albuquerque</st1:place></st1:city>’
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-19784144315913362202015-04-27T16:30:00.000+08:002015-09-29T12:24:48.301+08:00Why is Death ‘The Great Upload’?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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In the blog post ‘What Do I Think Death Is?’ which appeared
immediately before this one in April 2015<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/BlogTextsVaApr15/Dotpuzzle.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></a>,
I call dying The Great Upload.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">Why?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> This goes back to a
line by T. C. Lethbridge that I read more than thirty years ago, which
immediately rang a bell and I hope I will never forget. It was: </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">Man exists on many levels, of which the earth life appears to be the
lowest. On this level he gathers information to be used by his real self on the
levels above.<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/BlogTextsVaApr15/Dotpuzzle.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> This ‘rang a bell with’
me, and has stood since then as a perfect statement of what I myself believe,
for two reasons. It implies that (1) there is more to life than just physical life
and the physical body is not our only ‘setting,’ and (2) we are here for a
purpose that has something to do with consciousness (‘gathering information’).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> By way of visualizing
this, just as a bit of imaginative make-believe, let’s say that every possible
content of consciousness, everything you could possibly be aware of, is like a ‘dot’
in one of those old-fashioned newspaper pictures that were made up of dots on a
white background. Or a dot in one of those join-the-dots puzzles that used to
be featured in newspapers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">By the things you are doing, experiencing,
thinking, and cognizing in this visible world, you are connecting some of the
dots. But in this world, you will never see the Big Picture because we as
individuals just don’t have, so to speak, software that could focus it. Maybe
the, or a, Larger Provider does have such software. Or is in the process of
developing it though our very efforts as we struggle with the parts of manifestation
that come within our view.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">A few additional rules would seem to
apply:</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">A ‘dot’ exists only to the
extent that it is experienced by, or experience-able by, one or more persons.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 63.75pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -39.75pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">When one or more persons
experience a dot, they thereby connect it with one or more preceding or
following dots.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">When dots are connected, they
tend toward forming a picture. The more the dots, the bigger the picture.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 63.75pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -39.75pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Streams of dots which we have
connected are in the same medium or on the same continuum with, and can be
immediately linked into, streams of dots connected by others. This process goes
on all the time whether or not it is consciously intended.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 63.75pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -39.75pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Streams of dots which have been
connected by former people in former times, and which for any reason have a
particular affinity or applicability to our own, or which need our own context
to gain intelligibility, can become linked or assimilated into our own. This is
the explanation of the kind of experiences that are often taken to be evidence
of reincarnation.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">The pictures which we are
building or substantiating by viewing our parts of them in our world, go to
make up a Big Picture. Or Pictures.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 63.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 63.75pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -39.75pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">A Big Picture is not our ‘own’
in the sense of only existing ‘within’ ourselves. On the other hand, it is our
own in the sense that without our participation it would not exist.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 24.0pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">So then, what we are doing in this world
is to ‘get’ bits of consciousness...maybe even in the old sense of ‘begetting’
them, causing them to come to life...and to relate some of the bits with other
bits. And, very importantly, to relate to other people who are similarly
engaged. While ‘connecting’ the dots, we are also connecting ourselves, maybe
even ‘assembling’ or ‘constituting’ what Lethbridge called our ‘real self.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> But why do I say dying,
and not living, is the Great Upload? Aren’t we engaged in connecting,
expanding, clarifying and sharing Pictures every moment of our lives?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Of course I think we
are. But there is an added dimension that only dying can bring into it. That is
the very fact that all of our experiences, our ‘dots,’ have been parts of a
specifically human life. If our earth life did not have an end as well as a
beginning, it would not be ‘rounded off’; it would not have a distinct form and
would not be cognizable as a coherent entity. It is only by virtue of the Larger
Frame that the Viewer comes into View.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">April 2015</span></div>
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Lethbridge</i>, edited by Tom Graves and Janet Hoult with a foreword by Colin
Wilson. London etc.: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Granada</st1:city></st1:place>,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-15636392340076947842015-04-14T15:29:00.000+08:002015-04-14T21:37:49.411+08:00What Do I Think Death Is?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US">This spring, coming back to <st1:city w:st="on">Holland</st1:city>
after a wonderful carefree winter in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
I have been confronted from nearby with a sudden health crisis faced by a
92-year-old friend. The prognosis is still unclear: as the Dutch say, ‘Could
freeze, could thaw.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> Since I live nearby the
eye of the storm as it were, I have been sending brief ‘reports’ by email to a
few concerned friends. One of them was written shortly after an unflinching conversation
in which the possibility of stopping medication was considered. Such discussions
involve whatever one does or does not think about The Last Things, and in
relating the main points in writing, I found myself formulating with unusual
succinctness my own view as of right now (I’m 68).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> In Dutch, what I said
was: ‘Ik geloof persoonlijk dat het fysiek-belichaamde leven noch het enige,
noch het beste leven is dat er is. Wat de meeste mensen het "sterven" noemen en
ik liever The Great Upload, is niet het einde ergens van. Het is het verder waarmaken
van een wijder perspectief.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-US"> Then I got to
translating it into English. What I came up with was: ‘Personally, I do not
believe that physically embodied life is either the only or the best life there
is. What most people call "dying" and I prefer to call The Great Upload, is not
the end of anything. It is the continuing substantiation of a wider
perspective.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> As so often, although I
felt the translation was a pretty good representation of what I meant,
something had been lost in the process. The Dutch word ‘waarmaken,’ which I
made into ‘substantiation,’ can or does indeed mean ‘substantiate,’ as well as ‘live
up to’ in the sense of ‘living up to a promise.’ But the very structure of the
word, its being a combination of ‘waar’ meaning ‘true’ and ‘maken’ meaning ‘make’...somehow
conveys an added glint of ‘making it true,’ making something which was only
potential into an actuality.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Does this mean I think
you have to die before you become immortal? Certainly not. Like William Blake,
I believe the apps that enable our immortality, so to speak, are already
installed and running during our life in this visible world. Normally we are
not aware of them because the shine or glare of immediate exigencies bears in
on us more insistently. But let’s defer that discussion for later. Or for
Later...</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">April 14, 2015</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-49513954452031957392015-02-28T10:41:00.000+08:002015-05-12T11:49:26.354+08:00Spirit Writing in Old Matsu, Anno Now<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">(Scraps
from a Sinological Scrapbook </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">漢齋閒情異誌</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;">, fragment 27)</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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During our recent stay in Matsu, we were lodged in a
bed-and-breakfast owned by one of Katie’s former bosses, who is from Matsu. We
all call him Brother Tiger because the two characters of his name literally
mean Lucky Tiger. Brother Tiger was and is an administrator and advisor of
various cultural agencies including one of Taiwan’s most famous
traditional-style opera troupes. Like others from this particular part of
Matsu, from childhood up he has been a participant in the cult of a local god
called ‘The Marshal in Armor’ (in the military sense of a ‘field marshal’). <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
The Marshal is a
frog spirit. He is called Marshal in Armor because in the local dialect, the
word for ‘frog’ sounds like the Mandarin word for ‘armor,’ and being a god,
like a field marshal he has power and authority.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are several
images of the Marshal. The main one is located in a subsidiary altar of the
local temple of the ‘Empress of Heaven,’ i.e. the goddess Matsu. The Empress of
Heaven, like our Holy Virgin Mary who is also called Queen of Heaven, is said
to have been a flesh-and-blood girl during her life on earth. Later she
achieved the status of a goddess capable of helping earthlings with many things
including saving fishermen in peril, helping women to become pregnant...in
short, she is a divine refuge figure who is worshipped by millions and I would
say is probably, maybe next to the Buddha in his or her various guises, the
single most universal religious focus of the Taiwanese people. I will not now elaborate
on the goddess Matsu as that is a whole story in itself...<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
As I was saying,
there are several images of the Marshal. The main one is worshipped at the
Empress of Heaven’s temple, but an important role is also played by a compact
mobile image, a wooden thing maybe a foot high, which is mounted on a wooden ‘litter’
or ‘sedan chair’ that can be carried around during processions or...as I will
go into shortly...on inspection trips or even airline flights. The sedan chair is
carried by four men, two in front and two behind. Besides serving as the
Marshal’s vehicle when he needs to go somewhere, it is also the instrument of
his ‘spirit writing’ when he chooses to communicate with humans. When this
happens, the procedure is that the bearers tilt the whole sedan chair 90
degrees while continuing to hold it from below...the Marshal can’t fall out
because he is mounted inside. The writing is done by placing a table under the
tilted sedan chair. The table is covered with ash from burnt incense. The
bearers bend over somewhat, enough so that a crossbeam of the sedan chair is in
close proximity with the top of the table. When a question is asked or the
Marshal wishes to make a pronouncement, the whole Ark, so to say, gets to
Moverin’...bearers plus chair plus crossbeam get to vibrating, heaving up and
down and sideways, till the end of the crossbeam bumps repeatedly into the ash
and makes markings in it. The markings are Chinese characters or other familiar
signs...although in reporting this, I am taking it on faith because when I
looked at the marks, it defied my imagination how anyone could read anything
out of them. This point is important, though, as it is a somewhat unusual
manner of spirit communication. It is not at all unusual for the Chinese to
receive guidance from gods or spirits, but oftentimes either the message is
spoken through a medium who is in trance, or writing is done by other means
including the ‘planchette,’ which is a mechanical device made up of connected
sticks that looks something like a pantograph.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
The Marshal is a
testy character and not averse to letting his displeasure be known. One of the
stories about him is that when the County Chief was in town, the Marshal demanded
he should come to the temple for a visit. At the Marshal’s instruction, a very
large glass of the renowned local firewater (116 proof kaoliang) was prepared
for the County Chief and he was told to drink up and listen. What the Marshal
had to say was that certain repairs were needed on the local scene and would
the government please do something about it. (The story does not go on to tell
whether the repairs were all subsequently put through.)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
One of the
Marshal’s quirks is that he loves opera. About two years ago, when Brother
Tiger was in town and went to see the Marshal, he said he was planning to take
early retirement. The Marshal said Hey, not so fast now, you’re not done yet.
Since you’re a big shot in the opera world, I want you to stay on long enough
to arrange a nice opera performance for me to watch. So Brother Tiger agreed!
(This was not the Marshal’s first interaction with their family...years
previously, when their daughter was having a difficult pregnancy, the Marshal
gave a medical prescription, a certain remedy to be drunk by the girl for a
certain period of time, after which the trouble disappeared. Another time, when
Brother and Auntie Tiger’s son was getting married in Taiwan, the Marshal was a
guest at the wedding...he had been flown over to Taiwan, sedan chair and all, in
a regular passenger plane.)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
So at the Marshal’s
behest, Brother Tiger shelved his early retirement and busily set to work to
organize the opera – finding a suitable play, enlisting musicians etc. The
Marshal himself designated which performers were to play which roles. This all
took time, but by the time we got over to Matsu for a visit a few days ago,
things were at an advanced stage and the opera was being rehearsed at a locale
provided by a local school. We went to watch. The Marshal was present in his
chair rig, watching the whole time.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
After the
rehearsal, a table was set up with incense ash on it so that the Marshal could
write out his reactions and suggestions. The bearers brought him over, tilted
his rig into writing position, and the bumping and marking commenced. Brother
Tiger, based on all his professional experience, gave the performance a ‘grade’
– 85 points out of a possible 100. Not good enough, said the Marshal; next time
I want you to get it up to 95.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Certain
performers were singled out as needing improvement. This time they got by with
a mere admonishment, but on other occasions the Marshal has been known to demand
‘punishment’ in the form of making the deficient performer kneel on the cold
stone floor for the time it takes one stick of incense to burn to the end –
about one full hour.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
The cult of the
Marshal in Armor is not practiced in Taiwan proper or even in Matsu as a whole.
It is specific to the locality of Qinbi where we were staying, and (I have been
told) to certain spots on the Chinese Mainland.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
--Lloyd Haft<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 4, 2015<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-43657159986392929782015-02-02T07:26:00.000+08:002015-02-02T07:26:50.673+08:00On the Matsu Shore (poem)<br /><div class="DDJ1">
Is this a sound</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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of water or of wind,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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day or night that wakens me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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wants me here<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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waiting with the wind,<o:p></o:p></div>
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watching over water?<o:p></o:p></div>
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How many centuries,<o:p></o:p></div>
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how many me’s are gathered<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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in this moment yet to go,<o:p></o:p></div>
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yet to know the we, the way<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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from all of here to more of here,<o:p></o:p></div>
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ever more of here,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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hearing with the sea,<o:p></o:p></div>
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wondering the wind...<o:p></o:p></div>
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--Lloyd Haft<o:p></o:p></div>
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at Qinbi, Beigan, Matsu<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 2, 2015<o:p></o:p></div>
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early morning<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-69761833183396357452015-01-22T07:42:00.000+08:002015-03-08T16:53:09.633+08:00Tips for Tired Translators<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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(1)
Yours is one of the most thankless professions in the world You are being paid –
if we can even use the word ‘paid’ for the disgusting pittance you are
undoubtedly getting – to help somebody else earn money and become famous.
Accept it! Publishers will always think of you, if they think of you at all, as
a sort of glorified typist. As for authors, take comfort in the words of an
Italian sinologist friend of mine who said: ‘The nice thing about translating
Ancient Chinese poetry is that the authors are already dead!’</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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(2)
Try to avoid translating authors who know more than five words of your own
native language. They will always think they have found mistakes in your
translation, and want you to change your text accordingly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(3)
If you can’t see what the damned text MEANS, take a deep breath and just
translate what it SAYS. An obscure original has the right to an obscure
translation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(4)
Don’t break your back trying to make the original sound better than it is. We
are not in business to teach people to write decently.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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(5)
If you are an American, never expect that one single European, never one single
one of them in your lifetime or in all eternity, will ever think you know
anything at all about a language called ‘English.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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(6)
Don’t assume that just because a word is in the dictionary, it must be wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Lloyd
Haft<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="DDJ1" style="margin-left: -.05in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
January
2015<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-90933449798106725872015-01-18T05:20:00.000+08:002015-02-28T08:20:26.601+08:00Justin Stone's Chinese Name<br />
Justin Stone's Chinese Name<br />
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">(Scraps from a Sinological Scrapbook<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 新細明體;">漢齋閒情異誌</span><span lang="EN-US">, fragment 26)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<i>Fundamentals of T’ai Chi Ch’uan</i>, by
Wen-Shan Huang who was Justin Stone’s teacher, contains a preface by Justin
Stone – just as Stone’s <i>T’ai Chi Chih!</i>,
published at about the same time (1974), not only includes a foreword by Huang
but is dedicated to him as a ‘friend and teacher.’ Huang’s book, unlike Stone’s
brief manual, is an imposing tome, 559 pages in all, more like a reference book
for a lifetime. Probably nobody ever read it at one sitting.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<i> </i>It
took me forty years to get around to the Appendices at the back, which are in
Chinese. (By that time I had at least a reasonable knowledge of Chinese, though
I still had to ask my wife what certain key phrases meant...)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
In the third Appendix, where Huang lists
some acknowledgments, he calls Justin Stone by a Chinese name, adding the
English name in parentheses. The Chinese name is Shi Dong <span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">石東</span>,
the two characters meaning ‘stone’ and ‘east’ respectively. Shi is an existing
Chinese family name, and Dong is a plausible first name. If we rearrange the characters to put the
first and last names in the usual Western order (‘Dong Shi’), they mean ‘Oriental
Stone’ or ‘Eastern Stone.’ Very appropriate, given Justin’s intense study and
assimilation of Oriental meanings and values.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
I have no way of knowing whether it was
Wen-Shan Huang himself who gave Justin this name, but it is a reasonable guess.
Western students of Chinese things often receive a name from their Chinese
teacher. (I did.) And there is a technical detail of ‘Shi Dong’ which adds to
my suspicion that Teacher Huang himself gave this name to Teacher Stone. In
giving names to foreigners, the Chinese like to select Chinese syllables which
are not only meaningful but more or less resemble the original sound of the
person’s name. In Southern Chinese speech, ‘Shi Dong’ would likely be
pronounced ‘Si Dong,’ or if pronounced very fast – as is usual – ‘S-dong.’ To
Chinese ears that would sound very close to ‘Stone.’ And Wen-Shan Huang was of
South Chinese origin.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
I don’t know if Justin actually used this
Chinese name much. (Incidentally, in the older spelling common in those days, 'Shi Dong’ would have been ‘Shih Tung.’) But maybe there are other students out there
who, like me, have been curious as to what his Chinese name might be. If
somebody does know of another attested Chinese
name for Justin Stone, please do let me know!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Lloyd
Haft<o:p></o:p></div>
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January
2015<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1044234668127117462.post-55605326989024162102014-12-18T07:29:00.001+08:002014-12-18T08:39:31.247+08:00If I Had to Edit the Bible<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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...there’d
be some changes made. I would start by entirely omitting the Old Testament. I
think two thousand years of trying to construe patriarchalism as spirituality
has been enough. Look what it has done for us, or done to us...<o:p></o:p></div>
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But then. The New. To begin with, I would
delete practically all of the first two Gospels. I would make an exception for
Chapters Five, Six, and Seven of Matthew so as to get the Sermon on the Mount,
the Beatitudes, and the Lord’s Prayer. (And why is the Lord’s Prayer so
specifically important? My reference on this is a line from the philosopher Max Scheler: ‘God was not a father till Jesus called him one.’)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .3in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Of Luke’s Gospel, I would keep the beginning and the end,
those being the sections which emphasize the primary role of women in the
Salvation process.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of John, the most or the only philosophical gospel, I would
need to make a more extensive selection. It would certainly include the
beginning of the first Chapter – but not without retranslating the
all-important first sentence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The traditional version, so well known that it is used and
misused in all sorts of totally secular writings and contexts, is ‘In the
beginning was the word.’ I do not have a scholar’s or even a good knowledge
of Greek, but I have studied this passage
sufficiently to know that ‘word’ here is way wrong. It is one of the most
influentially misleading translations ever made. Whatever exactly the Greek <i>logos</i> means here – and it can have many
meanings – it certainly cannot be just ‘word’ in anything like the ordinary sense.<a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Lloyd68/If%20I%20Edited%20the%20Bible.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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My own version of that passage, the so-called Prologue, is
this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the beginning was the sense<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the sense was of God,<o:p></o:p></div>
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bespeaking God from ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All things have become of that;<o:p></o:p></div>
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nothing not of that becomes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the sense is
alive:<o:p></o:p></div>
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its life is the light of the human,<o:p></o:p></div>
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breaking the hold that the darkness would have had.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The true light comes into the world<o:p></o:p></div>
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with every one of us,<o:p></o:p></div>
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comes upon its world<o:p></o:p></div>
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that was not aware
before:<o:p></o:p></div>
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the sense becoming
human,<o:p></o:p></div>
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dwelling where we
are.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
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<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Going on with John, I would maintain
Chapters 15 and 17. By doing so, I would preserve the key passages about the
relativity or transcendability of the human person – its ability to morph and
merge, hence transcend, in resonance with another person or persons.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
But
there are other chapters of John that I would also include – 4, 6, 8, 13, and
18, so as to include Jesus’ famous (or infamous) predicateless ‘I am’ sayings.
I wonder if I could resist the temptation to retranslate them so as to sound
even more as if they applied not only to Jesus but to every one of us who says ‘I
am.’<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
But
then it would seem strange to exclude the other ‘I am’ sayings, so I suppose I
would have to add Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, and 19. And would it then
make much sense, having put in 16 of the 21 chapters of John, to leave out the
other five? So, I guess I would maintain all of John.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
If
you are now wondering ‘if you substantially leave out three of the four
Gospels, why do you still call it The New Testament at all?’...I’ll just tell
you the answer straight out. I do not believe the essential import of the New
Testament really comes out in the so-called ‘story of Jesus’ or Synoptic
Gospels (i.e. the first three). For me, it is in what comes after: in parts of
John, in that thrilling and I think quite believable story we call the Acts of
the Apostles, and in the superb, ever-haunting, humanly plausible Letters of
Paul.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
I
know that in many people’s minds, Paul is the great perverter (or great pervert
– ‘didn’t he have something against sex?’) – the one who distorted a supposedly
pure-and-pristine ‘real’ Christianity into an alien philosophy. To me, he is the
one who made Christianity worth more than passing attention, more than the
world’s so-manieth system of unworkable moral pronouncements based on myth-like
stories of a bygone Wonder Worker. Paul brings up the side that was lacking in
the Gospels: the inner and experiential dimension, the notion of a personal and
psychological growth. Above all, he points us to a sophisticated notion of ‘body’
such that the mere individual ‘body of this death’ is subsumed in the
surviving, still-growing Body of Christ in which we all, even now, participate.
(If you don’t believe this, read 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, and the one in which
it is all ‘colossally’ expanded to include the cosmos – Colossians.)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
But
what about the question of ‘authenticity’: whether the historical Paul of
Tarsus was really the one who wrote the texts attributed to him? I say: ignore
this. If you don’t, you will lose the glories of the Epistle to the Hebrews,
including its Chapter Eleven, the so-called Faith Chapter, in which we are
urged to carry on regardless, since even the great champions of faith in the
Old Testament never really lived to see their faith fulfilled.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="DDJ1" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Faith
is not a matter of fulfilment. It is about a sense in living. The living of a
sense. A sense that is known in the living of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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--Lloyd Haft<o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously I am not the first person in history to think this. Erasmus, in one
of his own versions, treated it as the Latin <i>sermo</i>, meaning something like ‘conversation’ or ‘discourse.’ Many
Chinese versions use Dao <span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">道</span> which in the first instance suggests not so much a ‘word’
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Dutch translator Pieter Oussoren makes it not ‘word’ but ‘speaking.’ The 20<sup>th</sup>-century
Dutch theologian Miskotte once wrote ‘word is a happening between persons.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These days I miss, but am also very aware of the continuing presence
of, my Spiritual Advisor. (She departed this physical frame about three years
ago at the age of 78.) She was a non-resident or external member (the technical
term is ‘oblate’) of a Benedictine monastic organization. Her monastic name was
Mary Magdalene. In what follows I will call her Madeleine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Before her retirement,
in worldly life Madeleine had been active in the world of education as a
counselor, administratrix, and textbook editor. She was successful and well
known in that world. All this fitted in well with her brand of spirituality,
which I would say was of the Active Service rather than the Contemplative type.
(Since my own natural bent is incurably the opposite, we sometimes had to work
at translating our spiritual experiences into each other’s terms.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She was tremendously critical of the
official Catholic hierarchy and was not afraid to confront even high ‘prelates’
face-to-face. On one occasion, she was talking to one of our notoriously
conservative Dutch bishops while both were looking at an Eastern Orthodox icon
of the Crucifixion. This type of icon shows the crucified Christ flanked by his
mother Mary and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">St. John</st1:city></st1:place>
the Evangelist, who is traditionally also called ‘the disciple whom Jesus
loved.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/MAIN-USER/Documents/BlogVaApr14/Margot.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Madeleine said to the bishop: ‘You don’t like this one, do you? The ones
closest to Jesus are a woman and a homosexual.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> She once told me she
believed Jesus himself had been bisexual. She was proud of the legends associated
with her monastic namesake, the original Mary Magdalene, which say that she had
been a prostitute. In general, she took a bread-and-butter rather than an
exalted view of sexuality. I remember once when I ‘confessed’ to her that in my
own prayers I much more often addressed myself to Mary than to Jesus, she said:
‘Well that’s just natural, after all, you’re a man and Mary is a woman!’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> But as far as I know,
this matter-of-factness never implied anything outside the straight-and-narrow
in Madeleine’s private life. She was a married woman and had vowed to interpret
the traditional monastic vow of chastity as commitment to a ‘special’
relationship with her own husband. I think she was one of those people who are
perceptively open to all manner of erotic potentials without falling into the
trap of thinking they must be put into physical practice at any cost.
Personally, I also thoroughly support both clauses of this traditional Pauline
attitude (1 Corinthians 6:12) that all things are allowable but not all are
expedient.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> The same practicality
applied in her approach to etheric and mysterious and invisible things. She
believed in them, hoped for them (isn’t that really the same?), and had no
problem with her own role in making them actual. Regarding the human
personality’s survival of bodily death, she told me frankly that while out
driving her car, she often talked out loud to her long-deceased father. And as
for the existence of God, to me her classic statement was ‘I just plain <i>want</i> God to exist!’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> Like many people in my
church, at home she was liable to pray while standing in front of an icon on
the wall. I can still see her (I never saw it objectively) getting up in the
morning, feeling as she put it ‘amazed to be still alive,’ pouring her first
cup from the automatic coffeemaker, stepping with that cup of coffee in her
hand right up to the nearest icon, and greeting the Presence at the beginning
of a new day.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">--Lloyd Haft</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">October 2014</span></div>
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they are historically valid, are John 19:26, 20:2, 21:7 and 21:20.</span></div>
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