Daily Archives: March 6, 2005

Death Poems

Posted by Yabu at 06:40 PM
I’ve always admired Samurai Death Poems. For example: Hôjô Ujimasa1 1538-1590 Autumn wind of eve, blow away the clouds that mass over the moon’s pure light and the mists that cloud our mind, do thou sweep away as well. Now we disappear, well, what must we think of it? From the sky we came. Now we may go back again. That’s at least one point of view.
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THE WORST WAY TO GO

Posted by Yabu at 03:42 PM
I’ve been asked: What would be the most horrible way to die? Excluding slow torture. Interesting question. For me, it would be the plank and sharks. Yeap, walking the plank wins. Can you imagine standing on the end of the board, looking down and seeing the sharks circling? You know they’re going to rip you to [...]
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