tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7800799218579874840..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Following the Brush'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-15254424808541349012009-06-17T07:29:00.244-05:002009-06-17T07:29:00.244-05:00Zuihitsu is one of my own favorite forms; it suits...Zuihitsu is one of my own favorite forms; it suits my own style of essay-writing naturally; and I also practice calligraphy. "Following the brush," indeed, or "the formless form." The classic Japanese example of the form is Kenko's Tsurezuregusa, often translated as "Essays in Idleness."<br /><br />There actually is a bit of a tradition of it in English language essay. PL Travers, a brilliant essayist as well as the inventor of Mary Poppins, called her essay style "thinking is linking." Her largest collection of essays was titled "What the Bee Knows," and the title essay is a long exercise in zuihitsu form.<br /><br />One thinks also of Norman O. Brown and some of John Cage's essays. I have read a couple of short novels that were written in zuihitsu style.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com