Just found you due to the Advocate blurb. Thanks. What is a Persimmon Troll? That must be a very interesting Troll, indeed.
Raven
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:59:40 -0800
Subject: the Advocate??
To: artwork@flash.net
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:59:38 -0800 (PST)
Hello, Raven,
Actually, the name Persimmon retired itself around Labor Day of 1996, collapsing, as it were, under the weight of associations. It was originally (1985) Marvelous Persimmon after a Zen parable about the ripening of wisdom into compassion (like a persimmon ripening from battery-acid astringency to sweetness). There was an article in Parabola magazine called "the Ripening Persimmon."
Marvelous came from Marx Marvelous, a character in "Another Roadside Attraction," novel by Northwest author Tom Robbins.
"Troll" came as a reclamation of an insult c. 1972 when an 18-year-old Princeton undergrad called me a Troll (I was a 22-yr-old grad student). Also as the middle initial "T," it recalls Herbert T. Gillis in the TV show "The Many Lives of Dobie Gillis."
-- told you
David Kerlick But what's this about a blurb in the Advocate? Maybe Mark Thompson's doing? --dk
In Chinese it is "shi zi" with a falling intonation on the
first syllable.
The character in ASCII is (approximately)
ooooooooooooooooo
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o-------oo-------
ooo/o\ooooo|-|--|
oo/ooo\oooo|o|oo|
o/ooooo\oo/oo|oo|
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The Linnaean genus name is diospyros and comes in Chinese sinensis?, Japanese japonica?, and Virginian virginiana (?). Diospyros is "food of the Gods"
Good recipe for Persimmon upside down cake, named after my favorite sexual position.
To ripen persimmons in the fridge, marinate in vodka for two weeks, basting frequently. The alcohol evaporates.
from "The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones" commentary by Dilgo Khyentse, root text by Patrul Rinpoche 1808-1887) WHo knew there were persimmons in Tibet?
2.
Like some persimmons in the autumn
Which though insiide still unripe, look ripe outside,
I myself am just the semblance of a Dharma practitioner,
And since tmy mind and the Dharma haven't mixed,
My Dharma teaching won't be up to much.
3.
But since you, worthy friend, entreat me insistently,
I cannot refuse---I will speak out frankly.
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