Prague
Linguistic Circle of Prague
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was taught from CHINO Eiichi in his class of Structural Linguistics in the late 1970s. We first met at the university in 1969. He was young, probably the age 30s. I was 21 years old.
Now referring his chronological record, CHINO was born in 1932, graduated Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1955, entered Carrel University at Czechoslovakia in 1958 and returned to Japan in 1964. So we met after 5 years from his returning.
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I need not more wander the bookshop streets
I need not more wander the bookshop streets. The object exists in my mind. I would better watch the canal. Wandering is over now. Perhaps I would not become meister forever. In my narrow working place, I 'd better do my work till sunset. So out of the window by the working place, the saint passes by. I ever read the Russian folk tale like that.
The Autumn evening is fast. The headlight of streetcar is dazzling. In the yellow-lighten window the passengers are picked out by the light. The car disappeared to the book streets. The station shop is also lighted up by the yard's busy orange light.
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CHINO Eiichi and Golden Prague
C also died early, who had taught me Russian and linguistics. He loved
the old city that had the beautiful towers and bridges.
In C's many works there was the essay "The Moon of Carpathians". He wrote
that the conference was over, departed at Kiev, saw the moon and
churches over the Carpathian Mountains, impetuously went to the west,
passed Slovakia, Moravia, Bohemia, and at last reached "Golden Prague". Prague, it was his youth itself.
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