Author John Fowles on the ways in which trees and forests formed the bedrock of his own creative, psychic and religious sensibility.
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Elegance and Spiritual Repose in the Darkness of a Japanese Latrine
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows is a tribute to a tenebrous, subtle Japanese aesthetic that the novelist upheld in opposition to the bright and shiny principles of design that he saw as the hallmark of the west. His dissertation is launched in the humble toilet, hailing the bathrooms of the temples and… Continue reading Elegance and Spiritual Repose in the Darkness of a Japanese Latrine