Hallelujah! The world’s greatest book, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics by R. H. Blyth, is back in print. Blyth was an English professor who happened to be in Japan when WW II broke out, and he spent the war years studying Zen and writing books explaining the concept of the non-concept to Westerners. This is a book I had in my olde college days that’s been out-of-print for too long, and the news that it’s back to life is marvelous, simply marvelous.
Blyth shows that Dickens’ Artful Dodger is full of Zen, for example. Really great stuff. Read the whole thing™.
yeah, I sometimes check you out.
Ah, Blyth—great stuff!
Remember his wonderful three volume study of haiku? Still the best.
MKD
Vaguely, but I though ZELOC was more accessible, Baby Boy.