"samarkand" > writes:

> >> Pasqualini obviously knows a vast amount about tea, even if some of it
> >> isn't true. But informing the reader in any linear way is very low on
> >> his agenda. It's the (usually hidden) *meanings* of things he's
> >> principally after, representations within representations, and the
> >> pursuit gets pretty dizzying, maddening, even. But there are gems in
> >> the text, too, like his hymn to gongfu preparation around p. 160
> >> (sorry, I don't have the book handy.)
> >>
> >> Anyway, it was rather amazing the other day to hit what may be the
> >> climax of the whole book (a page where he quotes both Derrida and
> >> Proust) on the same day I read Derrida's obituary.
> >>
> Is that the one on page 153-154, where he writes about Water?

Bingo!

> My favourite is near the end of the book,where he quotes Barthes,
> Roubaud and Laozi almost in a breath...

Haven't encountered that yet, but it's something to live for.

/Lew
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