Middle McCloud Falls in Northern California
“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless—and sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
“We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.”
Junichiro Tanizaki - In praise of shadows
(If you love Oriental culture, if you love interiors decor or if you just love reading, this little book about traditional homes in Japan is something precious.)