Cosmian

This memoir is an interesting blend of history and fantasy, of reality and poetry, of high-mindedness with the occasional carnality thrown in…I feel as though – not just for the fact of the words, but also for the ebb and flow of thought direction – I have been wandering the nerve-endings of your brain.

Your history is there, certainly, but slathered with other gravies: poetry, philosophy, passion, and dispassion. And a great deal of playfulness. I believe there is something very Zen-‘Masterish’ about the angled prose you set down in this writing, a wild-and-crazy trip, man.

While I was reading your history with ‘C’ (cosmos), I was reminded of these lines that Rumi wrote sometime in the mid-1200s:

I would love to kiss you

(The price of kissing is my life)

Now my loving is running toward my life

Shouting, “What a bargain,

Let’s buy it!”

– Dennis O’Keefe, American Poet

Lee Tae-Sang is a journalist, columnist, and published author of twenty-five books. This includes five translations into Korean: Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, The Garden of the Prophet, Spirits Rebellious, Nymphs of the Valley, and Thomas Mann's Transposed Heads. He has worked within the publishing industry in both Korea and England and is the founder of an online newspaper. He studied religion and philosophy and owned several businesses. As a court interpreter for the City of New York for the past 18 years, he has found the ideal place to reflect on the path of his unpredictable, global life and observe the present human condition.