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| Motto < Merely by means of illusion and folly do we shrink from the notion of self-instability. For what is our individuality? Most certainly it is not individuality at all:it is mulutiplicity incalcurable. What is the human body? A form built up out of billions of living entities, an impermanent agglomeration of individuals called cells. And the human soul? A composite of quintillions of souls. We are, each and all, infinite compounds of fragments of anterior lives. And the universal process that continually dissolves and continually constructs personality has always been going on, is even at this moment going on, in every one of us. What being ever had a totally new feeling, an absolutely new idea? All our emotions and thoughts and wishes, however changing and growing through the varying seasons of life, are only compositions and recompositions of the sensations and ideas and desires of other folk, mostly of dead people ―millions of billions of dead people. Cells and souls are themselves recombinations, present aggrigations of past knittings of forces,―forces about which nothing is known save that they belong to the Shadow-Makers of universes. Whether you (by you I mean any other agglomeration of souls) really wish for immortality as an agglomeration, I cannot tell. But I connfess that "my mind to me a kingdom is "―not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America; and the nominal government, supposed to be rational, declares that an eternity of such anarchy is not desirable. I have souls wanting to soar in air, nad souls wanting to swim in water (sea-water, I think), and souls wanting to live in woods or on mountain tops. I have souls longing for the tumult of great cities, and souls longing to dwell in tropical solitude;―souls, also, in various stages of naked savagery;―souls demanding nomad freedom without tribute;―souls conservative, delicate, loyal to empire and to feudal traditoin, and souls that are Nihilists,deserving Siberia;―sleepless souls, hating inaction, and hermit souls, dwelling in such meditative isolation that only at intervals of years can I feel them moving about;―souls that have faith in fetiches;―polytheisitic souls;―souls proclaiming Islam;―and souls mediaeval, loving cloister shadow and incense and glimmer of tapers and the awful altitude of Gothic glooms. Co-operation among all them is not to be thought of: always there is rouble,―revolt, confusion, civil war. The majority detest this state of things: multitudes would gladly emigrate. And the wiser minority feel that they need never hope for better conditions until after the total demolition of the existing social structure.> Lafcadio Hearn : from Dust 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 |