Dead White Male Beyond the Pale

and its nianv flashes of insight.rnJolin Elder first came to Japan, likernBouvier, under Basho's influence. As arnprofessor of both environmental studiesrnand wodd literature, however, he alsorncame to it in the hope of solving a riddle,rnat least to his own satisfaction: Whywouldrna people who love nature as muchrnas . . .