Fuji Sinai Olympos

<p>Travel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus Don Quixote Huckleberry Finn and Basho.” (Travel) “He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village he’d chant sutras until passersby gave him or flung him enough money for a flophouse bed a little food a bath and enough saké  to induce a measure of forgetfulness. ‘A beggar’ he admonished himself ‘has to learn to be an all-out beggar. Unless he can be that he will never taste the happiness of being a beggar.’” (Walking) ‘“The pleasantest of all diversions’ said the fourteenth-century Japanese priest Kenko“ is to sit alone under the lamp a book spread before you and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.’ Reading is inseparable from reverie. ‘Sitting alone under the lamp’ I was soon not alone at all but hosting I venture to say as vivid and varied a company as ever gathered under one roof. (Genji Myshkin and Jones) “Everest is nothing mere seismology.” (Fuji Sinai Olympos) </p>