Word: basho
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...Barbara was declared a federal disaster area. Fifteen years of daily notes and books half written, of statues and photos and memories, were gone. My only solace came from the final irony. In the manuscript I had saved, I had quoted the poem of the 17th century Japanese wanderer Basho, describing how destruction can sometimes bring a kind of clarity...
...curious began to arrive. They found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw...
Bond's point, though, is that tyrants become the victims of their own philosophies. "People who raise ghosts become haunted," he has Basho say, none too subtly. By the end of Narrow Road, Shogo is a dismembered corpse and Georgina is locked in the madness of her own sexual fantasies...
...beyond the first and most obvious stage in developing his idea. So many characters are introduced in a relatively short time that we can glean only hints about their motivations. One of the most interesting characters, the young priest Kiro, who, in his search for enlightenment, is rebuffed by Basho and turns to Shogo, is also one of the least articulate characters and the reasons for his suicide are only partly explained...
...quality of the acting varies from the high level of Rebecca Goldman's taut portrayal of the schizophrenic Georgina and Ed Baran's glassy-eyed baby-talking Commodore to the awkward self-consciousness of some of the bit players. Demetrious Athens plays a detached and rather pedantic Basho and Rick Hagan, as Kiro, and Thomas Nolan, as Shogo, both have a lot of stage presence but their speaking voices lack variety of intonation...