Comments on: A thousand times noh

By: lucy

lucy — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:55:01 +0000

Um, er, or rather something somewhat more grammatically correct about the quality of your writing, but it is quite late and I hit “post” before my brain caught up with my first reaction.

By: lucy

lucy — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:52:34 +0000

You write beautifully.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:24:56 +0000

No, his point was “Noh is great for sleeping.” I’m not sure which preposition he used, “Noh de” or “Noh ni…”. I liked the honest matter-of-factness, no intellectual pretense. That was inserted by the translator. Very simply the Japanese experts seemed to all agree, noh is boring and a good place to sleep. But they still loved it. I’ve never seen noh, but I fell asleep at a kabuki performance once, and kabuki was supposedly, among other things, a reaction to noh being so boring so I can only imagine.

By: anne

anne — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:42:00 +0000

let us discuss instead the japanese and their whole “sleep deprivation is the only way to prove i’m working hard” thing. his whole sentence was probably “noh is great for sleeping in comparison to the subway car i took a standing nap in on the way to the interview”. maybe it’s more of a “sleeping only counts if you multitask it” because see, then going to noh, you’re supporting the arts AND sleeping. and definitely not missing anything.
or actually probably your point is more interesting.

By: kay

kay — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:36:43 +0000

“because i’m still that lonesome 3-year old kid playing checkers with my uncle, unaware that he’s lonesome.”

golly, i liked that.