The parade is the culmination of the Lotus Lantern festival celebrating the birth of the Buddha; the construction of such lanterns dates to the Silla kingdom (BC 57 - AD 935), one of the ancient founding dynasties of Korea.
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March 14, 2009
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's an alternative to green beer at the local pub.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
From: The Independent
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St. Patrick's day always makes me think of James Joyce's "snot-green sea" (as in: "the sea's not green") word legerdemain.
St. Patrick's Day reminds me of a sad image: one of my deceased uncles, a fund-raiser for the Irish Republican Army, smiling with Gerry Adams. I wonder how many folks my Uncle George helped Adams kill....
Mark, I, too, think of Joyce: Of the joys of being immersed in his brilliant sea of words; his tendency, no: His wondrous sheer inability NOT to create new words; his non-stop sentences, especially in the never-to-be-bested 'Molly' chapter of "Ulysses."
Doc Nolan, grimly fascinating story, that. I wonder, too...