A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

LUST

Yoshida Kenko, Essays in Idleness, translated from the Japanese by G. B. Sansom (New York: Cosimo Classics, 1911, 2005) ("Of all things that lead astray the heart of man there is naught like fleshy lust. What a weakly thing is this heart of ours." Id. at 6. Kenko, 1283-1352, was a Buddhist priest, scholar and poet.).