Category Archives: Week 5: Hedonism, Mono no Aware, Monstrosity

Placing my hair I cut off in honor of Native American grandmother’s death to the Mystic River, I was greeted by two swans. On river floating, Wind guiding and met by swans, The soul goes forward. What better time to … Continue reading →

Walking back from Dewick after dinner on Calbot Avenue, looking up and spotting the chimney attached to Pearson. White smoke rises up and away, blown by the night wind.             The point made at the … Continue reading →

Nothing this week.             The development of a Hedonistic perspective in Tokugawa Japan may have come due to the merchants’ increased frustration by their inability to move up in life, regardless of their wealth (Lecture … Continue reading →

I was walking through campus when a bunch of Canadian geese flew over my head in a perfect V formation. clear blue sky dozen winged geese perfect formation   The discussion and readings about hedonism this week really emphasize the … Continue reading →

Sitting in my room with a special lady after a long weekend of hedonism. (She’s typing up a report) A downward gaze her fingers moving soundlessly eventually sigh.   I find Saikaku’s narrator to be inhuman. You mentioned in class … Continue reading →

No lyrical experience this week. So far in class we’ve been talking pretty extensively about evanescence as an inherent and inescapable part of life, and about a very specific reaction to it. In the past two weeks, we’ve seen characters … Continue reading →

Sitting by a window in the library after a less than wonderful weekend, I got totally lost looking at the snow as it changed from light rain to full-on blizzard.   Through glass A flurry stretches into blankness Each fluff … Continue reading →

By Laura Sabia I was walking quickly down Newbury Street trying to escape the bite of the freezing rain when, out of the very corner of my eye, I noticed the first tiny green buds peaking through the soil of … Continue reading →

I was sitting on my upstairs porch with a cup of coffee Saturday morning and noticed a tree beginning to bud. Winter sapling sprouts beneath snow Awakened This week’s discussions on Hedonism were particularly interesting to me. Birthed from the … Continue reading →