Civil Twilight (2010)
Civil Twilight
“I nodded. Yet, despite my intentions I was not sure at all—and less sure with each step down the short hall into a small, cold room. Two gray metal chairs had been pushed against the gray wall. The door at the far end was wide and I understood the reason.
Korematsu motioned me to sit.
I didn’t move. Breathed. Remembered the reactions to the koan when Leo gave a talk on it. A cart maker built a magnificent cart with wheels of one hundred spokes. If you remove the wheels, the axle, the front and ...back pieces and even the cart bed, what will it be? “One big mess,” a woman said. “A pile of rubble,” a guy added.
A pile of rubble?
The door opened and the acrid smell of formaldehyde gushed in. Instinctively, I breathed through my mouth. A metal dolly rolled through the doorway. A cart. If its wheels were stolen and its bed tossed away, what would it be, I wondered. It was an instant before I realized I was just avoiding looking at the oil-skin-like sheet lying on top of something small and flat.MoreLess
Korematsu motioned me to sit.
I didn’t move. Breathed. Remembered the reactions to the koan when Leo gave a talk on it. A cart maker built a magnificent cart with wheels of one hundred spokes. If you remove the wheels, the axle, the front and ...back pieces and even the cart bed, what will it be? “One big mess,” a woman said. “A pile of rubble,” a guy added.
A pile of rubble?
The door opened and the acrid smell of formaldehyde gushed in. Instinctively, I breathed through my mouth. A metal dolly rolled through the doorway. A cart. If its wheels were stolen and its bed tossed away, what would it be, I wondered. It was an instant before I realized I was just avoiding looking at the oil-skin-like sheet lying on top of something small and flat.MoreLess
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