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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho

11th Oct 07

Spring is the perfect time to put away Moby Dick and go back to the classic works of Japanese haiku-master Matsuo Basho. Spring needs no florid Shakespearean drivel, no extended Biblical metaphors, no tricky rhetorical devices. It is a time best spent outdoors beneath the cherry, not curled away trying to make sense of Ahab's puzzled mutterings.

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