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| Motto < Neither personal pain nor personal pleasure can be really expressed in words. It is never possible to communicate them in their original form.It is only possible, by vivid portrayal of the circumstances or conditions causing them, to awaken in sympathetic minds some kindred qualities of feeling. But if the circumstances causing the pain or the pleasure be totally foreign to common human experience, then no representations of them can make fully known the sensations which they evoked. Hopeless, therefore, any attempt to tell the real pain of seeing of my former births. I can say only that no combination of suffering possible to individual beeing could be likend to such pain, ―the pain of countless lives interwoven. It seemed as if every nerve of me had been prolonged into some monstrous web of sentiensy spun back through a milion years,―and as if the whole of that measureless woof and warp, over all its shivering threads, were pouring into my consciousness,out of the abysmal past, some ghastliness without name,―some horror too vast for human brain to hold. For, as I looked backward, I became double, quadruple, octuple; ―I multiplied by arithmetical progression;―I became hundreds and thousands,―and feared with the terror of thousands,―and despaired with the anguish of thousands,―and shuddered with the agony of thousands; yet knew the pleasure of none. All joys, all deligits appeared but mists or mockeries: only the pain and the fear were real,―and always, always growing. Then in the moment when sentiency itself seemed bursting into dissolition, one divine touch ended the frightfull vision, and brought again to me the simple consciousness of the single present. Oh! how unspeakably delicious that sudden shrinking back out of multiplicity into unity!―that immense, immeasurable collaps of Self into the blind oblivious numbness of individuality! .> Lafcadio Hearn : from Within The Circle in Gleanings in Buddha-Fiields |
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| Contents "The Castle of Translations” of European literature into Japanese (Honyakujou) Ambrose Bierce : Various Ghost Stories : Visions of The Night Adelbert von Chamisso : Peter Schlemihls wundesame Geschichte Max Dauthendey : Sonniger Himmel und Brise von Awazu Die Brueder Grimm : Das Lumpengesindel und Maerchen von einem ,der auszog, das Fuerchten zu lernen Friedrich Gerstecker : Germershauzen Wilhelm Hauff : Der Junge Englaender : Die Geschichte vom Gespensterschiff Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Haunted Mind : Night Sketches - Beneath an Umbrella - Lafcadio Hearn : A Mad Romantic : The Devil's Carbuncle and Other Stories (from Fantastics) : The Gipsy's Story : Levitation : Nightmare-Touch : Vespertina Cognitio : Readings From a Dream-book Richard Jefferies : The Story of My Heart (in parts) Nikolaus Lenau : Der truebe Wandrer und andere Lyrik Jonas Lie : Das Seegespenst Henry Wadsworth Longfellow et al : The Rainy Day and Other Melancholic Poems Edgar Allan Poe : The Island of the Fay : Dreamland and other poems : The Man of the Crowd Robert Louis Stevenson : The Pavilion on the Links Jakob van Hoddis : Doktor Hackers Ende und Andere Gedichte Richard von Volkmann-Leander : Die Alte-weiber-Muehle und andere Maerchen : Das kleine bucklige Maedchen und Goldtoechterchen : Vom unsichtbaren Koenigreiche : Heino im Sumpf : Eine Kindergeschichte und Der Kleine Vogel : Der kleine Mohr und die Goldprinzessin *Letters from Honyakujou* The Salon in the Uranoborg : A Meta-literary Salon 1.Intoroduction : The Salon in the castle of Uranoborg-- Count Marinenko awakes from the long sleep. 2.Baron Night : The Ballad of a Mirror Dweller 3.Mr Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (1)The Epic of Gilgamesh 4.The Recluse upon a Tree told by Aflala 5.The Amangu--A Southsea legend of a youth who hunted a rainbow and submitted his life--retold by Nathaniel 6.The Moon Farm -- told through the mediumistic mouth of Bullflora by a spirit 7. Mogul's Fables--Mr.Mogul tells didactic stories. 8. Kosmisches Intermezzo: The End of The Word composed and recited by Baron Night 9. Mr.Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (4) Edda 10. Journey to the Decanschon1 by an unknown author 11. Journey to the Decanschon 2 12. Journey to the Decanschon 3 13. Journey to the Decanschon 4 Poetry (1) Neropolis, Poems by Baron Night (2) Mr Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (2) Homer (3) Mr Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (3) Beowulf (5) Mr Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (5) Yukar (6) Mr Kaimela's Lectures on Heroic Poetry (6) La Chanson de Roland Baron Night's Guestroom The first night :The House among the Winds by Howard Croft The second night : The School of Time by Howard Croft The third night : The Queer Man by Howard Croft The fourth night : The Park by Howard Croft The fifth night : To Cross the Bridge by Howard Croft The sixth night : Crepusculum, a Dream Quest by Aflala The seventh night : Neropolis Ⅱ The Second Poems by Baron Night The eighth night : Anschauungen--prose poems by Baron Night The ninth night : A Journey to the Center of Night (1) by Howard Croft The tenth night : A Journey to the Center of Night (2) by Howard Croft The eleventh night : A Journey to the Center of Night (3.4)by H.Croft The twelveth night : A Journey to the Center of Night (5,6)by H.Croft The thirteenth night : The Dream Diary of Mr. Shima Ujiie (1) by Seito Muyu The fourteenth night : The Dream Diary of Mr. Shima Ujiie (2) by Seito Muyu The fifteenth night : Minimum Poetry The Seven-Mile Boots by Howard Croft The sixteenth night : Minimum Poetry The Platonic Ideal of the Ocean by Howard Croft The seventeenth night : The Invitations from the Past by Howard Croft Nekolog (Diary on sundry topics ) Webmaster's Room : :introducing main persons : A life of a Visionary : The Philosophical Essays upon Fourfold Worlds e-mail:eposbungakukan@hotmail.com Renewal: 2004.11.17 : This literary site started. 2006.8.20 : This English home page opened. 2009.10.22 : This site was renamed Marinenkobungakukan Webmaster: Shuh Kai |