“I was  clinging to logic like a life buoy. Now,in the flick of an eye I’m trying to follow intuition.  I see a reflection of a samurai in the glass of a painting and I come to Japan  reason is discarded and I’m just going where the voices of the moment seem to send me. I’m the barbarian stalking the temples of Kyoto for long departed wisdom; I wallow in the aesthetics hooping that they will purify the beholder.”

— from “Sabine’s Notebooks,” by Nick Bantock