A rainy morning, the hills
barely holding onto themselves. On a ridge looking down to
the valley's cultured land, whiffs of salty air awaken a wizened
Odysseus, who carried
an oar inland, to where it was mistaken for a fan used for winnowing
grain from chaff.
After defeating his rival with
a wooden sword, carved from the oar that ferried him to
the island, Miyamoto Musashi, "was watching a small cloud in
the sky. As he did, his
soul returned to his body, and it became possible for him to distinguish
between the
cloud and himself, between his body and the universe.”
If you ask an old Aborigine
for directions,
he will point
to
the nearest myth.