[syndicate] Inari

[Alan Sondheim]

I remember the fox guardians in Fukuoka, a tiny shrine about a block from 
me, falling into ruin - it seemed to be hundreds of years old. And around 
the corner from Jack Kimball's place in Miyazaki, guardian deities with 
the same mouthed positions. An incredible, almost virtual, way to think 
about language and the spacing of language among speakers, among entities 
- organisms recapitulated in stone, in the process of dividing, cohering, 
chanting the syllable.

  = Alan


On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Patrick Lichty wrote:

> Alan,
> I got lost in Fushimi Inari (Kyoto) in October 2002 with a case of
> pneumonia.  It was 45 degrees out, I only had a suit on.  A nice old lady at
> one of the shrine's many teahouses asked me to stay for the evening and have
> ea with her; I had to get back.  It was dusk, and I was over a mile back in
> the shrine complex, and the temperature was falling even more.  Knowing the
> place had no central heat, I knew I had to get back to the Park Kyoto Hotel
> or the night would be exquisitely excruciating.  In addition, I also know
> that the Kami were being stern with me, so it was best to be respectful and
> get out before the spirits all cam eout.
>
> Until you get close to the main shrines, the endless corridors of torii are
> not lit. big fun.
>
> ---- Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
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>> Inari
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>> origins of speech
>> au			mmmm
>> oo			mmmm
>> a			ummm
>> o			mmmm
>> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>   i am a castle of language.
>>
>> process of buddha-speech
>>
>> http://www.asondheim.org/scan24.mp4
>>
>> speaking of every sutra
>>
>> this is the one of many of video-speech
>>
>> (i cannot do better than this. my useless
>> limbs wait for satori.)
>>
>>
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>
>

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