Neal Stephenson Quote
The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this conceptinto English is like translating fuckface into Nipponese, but it mighttranslate into emotional intensity in football lingo. He charges directly atHiro, hollering at the top of his lungs...Emotional intensity doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kindof coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies ofsamurai warriors spin in their graves. The word zanshin is larded down with alot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand.And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the samelevel as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110percent.
The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this conceptinto English is like translating fuckface into Nipponese, but it mighttranslate into emotional intensity in football lingo. He charges directly atHiro, hollering at the top of his lungs...Emotional intensity doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kindof coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies ofsamurai warriors spin in their graves. The word zanshin is larded down with alot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand.And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the samelevel as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110percent.