Kyoto
I love working for Berlitz…
Last week the Umeda school, where I am based, was briefly closed for renovations, so I got shipped out to the Kyoto Ekimae (“station-side”) school for two days. On one of those two days, a student cancelled their lesson after it was meant to begin, so I got paid to go out and walk around Kyoto for two hours.
And this is some of what I saw…
A view towards central Kyoto, looking north up the Kamo river, near the Shichijo-dori bridge.
At both the Nishi Honganji and the Higashi Honganji, it’s difficult to take good photos, because the main halls at each temple are being restored inside giant hangars like this one (at the Higashi Honganji).
Nevertheless, if you look away from the hangars, you can take some decent photos. This is a fountain at the Higashi Honganji. It’s not suffused with holy power, it was just a bright day and I’d forgotten to peel the plastic lens-protector off my new mobile-phone.
One of the east gates of the Higashi Honganji complex. The fountain in front is a sculpture of a lotus blossom.
Looks like IIDB’s off for the Wittgenstein thing – one of the participants is banned from there (long story). It looks as though we’ll be doing it at http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/index.php unless anyone has any major objections. It’s a medium size forum with the right kind of atmosphere.
I’ll start the thread tomorrow, acts of god (and early senility) permitting.
They should hopefully have the book at any major library, but the first 100 numbered paragraphs (about 1/8th of the book) are online:
http://users.rcn.com/rathbone/lwtocc.htm
So that should give time for everyone who’s going to to pick up the whole thing without delaying the start.
Sasha
9 Nov 05 at 23:45
Last minute change of plan. I posted it here instead: http://europeforum.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=18482#18482
(registration on that forum isn’t complicit, and is easier if you do it).
We seem to have fallen into starting with the first 10 sections which are pretty short, so dive in ASAP.
Sasha
10 Nov 05 at 23:34
[...] In the beginning, Osaka was an interesting playground to explore, and with Kyoto and Kobe just 30 minutes away, the Kansai area is full of charming landscape and historical attractions. Shortly after I arrived, I also had the pleasure of doing my first radio interview, with Libby Price of 3LO, who’d been intrigued by my piece in the IPA review. (Some time later, my work also got somewhat misrepresented when blogged on by Edmund Tadros of the Sydney Morning Herald.) [...]
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