1 Kokoro - though translations are many Kokoro can be translated to Heart Mind Spirit Soul or I.
2 Iki - in Heidegger's A Dialogue on Language,(p 43-45) when the Inquirer asks, the Japanese scholar refers to Iki as "the gracious ... the breath of the stillness of illuminous light ...the pure delight of the beckoning stillness. The breath of stillness that makes this beckoning delight come into its own is the reign under which that delight is made to come" which i refer to as essence, thinking of the essence of Being. Interestingly Versenyi notes that Thought is the "grace" of Being. (p111). i would like to posit that Iki is related to the word Echological.
3 Language is the House of Being - Heidegger's oft quoted term found in several of his books.
4 Daesin (being-in-the world) - i refer the screener to Versenyi's book Heidegger, Being and Truth for a fuller understanding of this term.
5 Interlocutor - Yeats term for conduit or medium. Yeats wife acted as an Interlocutor for A Vision. Was she unacknowledged collaborator?
6 Angleus Silieus - This poem is entitled "Without Why". see Sileus Angelus in Bibliography
7 Bricrui - a Celtic figure and shape shifter appearing in various stories including At the Hawk's Well
8 Three but not Three - a variation on Two but not Two of Kukai as conveyed by Lee Stothers
9 Ring Road ... Eternal Return - terms of Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche respectively
10 DNA of Sound - a metaphysical poetic concept that i've been pondering which proving via poetry or phenomenologically may prove Nõ thing. :)
11 The slipperiness of truth ... written by Josetsu noted in Stothers, Lee FPA 311 Lecture notes 2.1.99
12 Is there a Text in this Classroom? - this question inspired by the book Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities by Stanley Fish regarding the authority of reader and writer in the creation of text. The question is meant to refer to the conversation in On the Way to Language. The teachers responce comes from Lee Stothers at SFU spring 1999.
13 Ontological Attunement ... gesture as thinking - see Levin listed in Bibliography
14 Eadwacer, do you hear? - From Wulf and Eadwacer a 7th Century Poem in the Exeter Book. Speculative translation reads Eadwacer as either Skywatcher or Earthwatcher.
15 Bunraku - puppet theatre of Japan - translates to thing music (Stothers)
16 ephemeral & stable ... wandering & dwelling - from Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, p 362-63) where dwelling & wandering are Heidegger's terms ... Western Front Magazine, 1999
17 Tactile relationship - Stothers' term referring to Merlau-Ponty, Maurice. "An Unpublished Text" Edie, JM. (ed.) The Primacy of Perception US: Northwestern University Press. Caress of crossroads -Stohers' term referring to Irigaray, Luce. An Ethics of Sexual Difference. Burke, C et al (trans.) US:Cornell University Press.
18 Nõ Training - Training in the Nõ theatre of Japan requires years of intensive concentration. Zeami's description of this discipline can be found in "Style and the Flower" Rimmer, J et al. (eds,) On the Art of No Drama US: Priceton University Press 1984
19 "The Rose Tree" - Yeats, from Collected Poems p183
20 Jung though we are - playful reference to Carl Jung's concepts of Collective Consciousness
21 Transubstantiation - when the essence of Being / Flower travels through the mask / object
22 butoh - a modern dance form whose origins lay in Nõ theatre and in reaction to Nõ. Butoh is also known as Dance of the Feet or Dance of Darkness. Photos are from Butoh:Dance of the Dark Soul ... Kazuo Ohno and Dancers. i refer the reader to two books for further info - Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soul and Butoh Shades of Darkness.
23 body of work ... work of body - inspired by butoh modern dancers Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi of Vancouver based Kokoro Dance.
24 Semiotic Ghost(s) - a term that critics have given to writer William Gibson noted by Lee Stothers which i have extended to refer to anything/anyone which evokes thoughts of the past, present, future.
25 Guardian Awareness, Perceptual Thinking ... - much of this paragraph is inspired by the writing of Levin in Mudra as Thinking and by Heidegger and Stother's philosophical questions and positions.
26 Mona Lisa - a character in William Gibson's book Mona Lisa Overdrive
27 difference - from the Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Cuddon, J.A. (ed.) US:Penguin. 1991
28 Dionysius and Apollo - of Body (Dionysius) and of Mind (Apollo) as suggested by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner. Kaufman, w. (trans) US: Vintage Books. 1967
29 In a Station of the Metro - a poem by Ezra Pound in Selected Poems
30 Monitor and Interstanding - the word Interstanding regarding Understanding and the concept of a space beyond the computer monitor was introduced to me by Lee Stothers in her lectures.
31 Sentiency of the Flower - A quotation from Hui-neng (638-713). see Zeami, p 30.
31 Two but not Two - Kukai as conveyed by Lee Stothers
32 snow on cherry blossoms - see/hear Kirosawa's film Dreams
33 What is it that calls us to Thinking? - questions of Heidegger in What is Called Thinking?
34 thinking is the dowry of our nature - also Heidegger in What is Called Thinking?
35 Origin always comes to meet us from the future - Heidegger, source?