For some reason, the thought occurs to me that if I had been able to get to the theatre festival in Transylvania and see a few of the Noh pieces from Japan (as in the past year or two), my focus might now be a bit more crystalline. Like an early modern courtier relying on the yearly trudge to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury in order to keep the mental focus for the rest of the year. Theatre does create these small dependencies, even for distant and obscure connections.
To take a line from Gandhi, I will have to be the Noh theatre that I had hoped to see in the world.
