Following Saul's query (immediately below) artsy6 quotes from and supplies a link to ESSAYS IN IDLENESS by Yoshida Kenko (further below). Kenko, a Japanese monk, write the very short essays 700 years ago. It's now considered a masterpiece in Japan, and assigned in schools to this day.
Since the whole book was right there, I browsed through a number of passages. The book is remarkable. But for the wrong reason. Since Kenko is not around to be hurt, I can say this: Kenko was a bloody moron. The essays contain one fatuity after another. So having him to celebrate "incompleteness" is of little comfort to me, the author of a play currently titled INCOMPLETENESS. For what it's worth, I have worries that, as a title, INCOMPLETENESS is too heavy, somber, dark, Scandanavian. Let's see. Maybe I should add some sly humor to the title. I'll call it INCOMPL. > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:22 AM, saul ostrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > okay - this having been said - i'm curious if anyone here has any > insights > > into the aesthetics of incompleteness... > > > > Concerning incompleteness, the following may be of interest: > > - ...'It is only a person of poor understanding who wishes to arrange > things in complete sets. It is incompleteness that is desirable.' In > everything regularity is bad. To leave a thing unfinished gives > interest... > > http://books.google.com/books?id=9jIX_in-gYAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=i > dleness&source=bl&ots=NewOTVh-Ci&sig=qjFPU5Hz8jQWz22ldcDd9y8YrF4&hl=en&sa=X& > ei=BeYOUIO2LsbwiwK-joDQDg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=incompleteness&f=false
