A LITERARY CRITICISM . . . IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A faint image of a person mixed with a view of a library book stack and an image of a cracked wall a d some branches in winter. Juanita: The previous poem was a tad morbid, wouldn't you say? Ella: Well, didn't the author turn 50 in 2005? A lot of people reflect on death at that age. Jack: (frustrated) I don't care about the author. This poem stinks of nihilism – it's that simple. Shu: I see it differently: perhaps the author is brave enough to acknowledge his own insignificance. In that sense it is almost Buddhist. Not surprising: most of his life was in Japan. Ella: (shaking her head in disbelief) Do we need ideological labels? A poem is just a poem. . . . ===================================================================================== from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields SUMMARY: An image of a man in a library and discussion about nihilism and Buddhism. KEYWORDS: literary ghosts, libraries as cemeteries, information decay, literary nihility and nullity Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2005 in Tokyo, Japan ⨳ Finished: 2016 in Tokyo, Taiwan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/LitaRupture/haunted.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/LitaRupture/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/LitaRupture/discard.htm