You Can Get There There

Roo Borson in Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida muses on the phenomenology of place.

Ōishida still exists on the map. I would someday like to go there. whether it would be the same Ōishida Bashō knew is another question. Nonetheless I would like to walk the streets and see for myself. There are places one cannot go except in literature, and all ordinary human commerce, keeps us from.

Deserves repeating

There are places one cannot go except in literature, and all ordinary human commerce, keeps us from.

There is a there there — if you start from hearing the here and now, start by reading.

And so for day 635
08.09.2008