A Part of Wordless Wednesday
Tag: Photograph
Weekly Photo Challenge: Face
This stone statue is Ksitigarbha, Buddhist monk – I have checked with Wikipedia – and 地蔵 in Japan. Exactly saying, it is a mixture of Buddhism and a traditional folk religion. Although today most of people aren’t religious, someone takes care of him everyday, as you see. I have no idea how old it is. At least, his face seems to have got ruined.
In response to the weekly photo challenge, Face by The Daily Post.
Wordless Wednesday: March and April
A Part of Wordless Wednesday
Friday Flower: little tiny flowers (l.t.f.)
I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .
スローターハウスファイブを書き上げたあとで、書きたいと思わない限り、もはや書く必要はないと感じていた。ある種、キャリアの終わりのようなものだった。正確な理由はわからない。花が咲く時、それは供された目的のようなものを知っているのではないかと思っている。花は誰かに花であってくれと頼まれたわけではないし、私は私であるよう頼まれたわけでもない。スローターハウスファイブを書き上げた時、隔絶されたような気がしたのだが、こうでなければならないと思われたことを全て成し遂げ、全てがOKだったのだ。
Kurt Vonnegut
カート・ヴォネガット



