Intellectual ethnocentrism at its finest...
In his earlier reminiscences he was prone to denounce dada, saying that it was rather shallow, something like a bubble, that it contained only a modicum of 'fox-Zen', that is, fake Zen. He argued: 'If there is any legacy at all of dada and surrealism, it is simply that they have helped accelerate the desolation and downfall of the Occident, and prompt the ascendancy of the self-awakened Asians.'
~ Afterimages: Zen Poems, by Shinkichi Takahashi, translated and with introductions by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
It's interesting to read something from that perspective, ne? I think it's really funny.... xD
My brother is reading this completely anti-Japanese book that's really interesting, too...
Bias is everything...
[Baby Biiiiaaaasss]All of my IA's are finished... =)
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HAHAHAHAHA...I love you...xD
And yay for IAs...or lack thereof...=D