Areopagus Volume LXVI

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the sixty sixth volume of the Areopagus. Last week's missive on the nature of mythology both ancient and modern was rather a long one. It is only right, then, that this week's Areopagus be short and sweet.

now it reveals its hidden side / and now the other — thus it falls / an autumn leaf

This was the final haiku composed by Ryōkan, a Japanese travelling monk and calligrapher-poet who evidently knew that a handful of words can do more than a bucketful. Onwards, then, and like the falling autumn leaf we go!