KEYWORDS
1. Abhisara
a. Drunk with the win of her youth
b. Young ascetic
c. Austerely beautiful
d. Dusty earth isn’t a fit bet for you
e. Time is right ill come to you
f. Black pestilence – sores of smallpox
g. Merciful one
2. Why I Like the Hospital
a. Grants permission for pathos
b. Invent complex scoring systems – times I acted like a fool on left and time I acted like
a saint on the right
c. Long prairie of the waiting
d. Forced intimacy of self with the self
e. Tree wondering what happened to the forest
f. Pumping from the bottom of the self
g. Overflowing bilge of helplessness and rage
h. Holding his own hand in sympathy
3. A Living God
a. Evening of June 17, 1896 – NE province of iwate, Aomori, Miyagi – 200 miles –
30,000 ppl
b. Place:
i. Farmhouse – small plateau devoted to rice culture
ii. 3 sides – thickly wooded summits
iii. Other side – green concavity – ¾ mile long – towards shore
iv. Divided in centre – white streak of mountain road
v. 90 thatched dwellings and Shinto temple
c. Celebrations
i. Court of ujigami
ii. Festival banners – nobori – fluttering above roofs
iii. Paper lanterns tied b/w bamboo poles
iv. Decoration of shrine
v. Brightly coloured gatherings
d. Earthquake – “long slow spongy motion”
e. Unusual:
i. Sea – darkened suddenly
ii. Acting strange
iii. Running away from shore towards the horizon
iv. Moving against the wind
f. “no such ebb had been witnessed on that coast within the memory of living man”
g. Order of ppl coming
i. Agile young peasents
ii. Young men and boys
iii. More active women and girls
iv. Older folk
v. Mothers with babies
vi. Children
vii. Elders too feeble to keep up
h. Tsunami – long lean dim line – long dakrness was the returning sea
i. Attack of tsunami
i. Nameless shock heavier than any thunder
ii. Sent shudder through the hillls
iii. Foam-burst like a blaze of sheetlightning
iv. Nothing was visible except for a storm of spray
v. Sea struck and ebbed 5 times
j. Effect of tsunami
i. All were speechless
ii. Ghastliness of hurled roack
iii. Naked riven cliff
iv. Bewilderment of scooped-up deep-sea wrack
v. Shingle shot over the empty site of dwelling
vi. Nothing remain expect for 2 straw roofs
k. “that’s why I set the rice on fire”
l. Gratitude:
i. Declared him a god – Hamaguchi daimyojin
ii. Temple w his name in chinise text of gold
iii. Worshipped him there w prayer and offerings
4. Advice to Youth
a. Didactic, instructive and smth in the nature of good advice
b. Avoid violence – in this age of charity and kindliness – leave dynamite to the low and
unrefined
c. Lark – splendid reputation w everybody
d. Lying
i. Injured by – single clumsy and ill-finished lie
ii. Temperate in the use of the great art until practice and experience gives
confidence, elegance and precision
iii. Patience, diligence and painstaking attention to detail – requirements
iv. “truth is mighty and will prevail”
v. “truth is not hard to kill and a lie well told is immortal”
vi. Boston monument
e. Never handle firearm carelessly
i. Old battered rusty gun
ii. Old unloaded firearms – “most deadly and unerring things that have every
been created by man”
iii. don’t need any practice – just shoot at relative
iv. a youth who cant hit a cathedral at 30 yards with a gatling gun in ¾ hour can
take an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time at a 100
yards
f. books –
i. robertson’s Sermon
ii. Baxter’s Saint rest
iii. The innocents abroad
5. Macbeth
a. Graymalkin – grey cat
b. Paddock – toad
c. “fair is foul, foul is fair”
d. Macdownald – rebel – ripped from navel to jaw
e. Golgotha – place of jesus’ cruxification
f. Fife – place where Norway won b4
g. Forres – place where palace is located
h. Bellona’s bridegroom – roman goddess of war’s husband – macbeth
i. Sweno – king of Norway
j. Saint colme’s inch – island to bury dead soldiers
k. Aleppo – sailor heading to – the Tiger – ship name
l. Rapt – Macbeths reaction
m. Sinel – macbeth’s fater
n. Bubbles of earth – witches – banquo’s desc
o. “oftentimes, to win our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truth”
p. “come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day”
q. “theres no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” – Appearance vs reality
r. “I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of glowing”
s. Malcolm – next king and Prince of Cumberland
t. Inverness – Macbeths home
u. “stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”
v. “my dearest partner of greatness” – lady Macbeths
w. “to full of the milk of human kindness” – about macbeth
x. “take my milk for gall”
y. “come thick night …. Keen knife see not the wound it makes”
z. “to beguile the time, look like the time” – lady macbeth to macbeth
aa. “even handed justice commends the ingridients of our poisoned chalice to our own
lips”
bb. “false face must hide what the false heart doth know”
