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First Edition Cover✽ What's Shunryu Suzuki looking at in this photo by Pat McFarlin? He's an artist now living in Santa Fe.
What he's looking at. He's just looking at a minaret on a building from the courtyard of the City Center. Pat had told me he's looking at a dancer, so I had the contest and finally announced that, but later in looking at a sheet of proofs that this photo came from realized that he's looking at the top of a building as it seems, and Pat was just remembering that Suzuki was there to watch a dancer who is in other photos.
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Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chadwick, David, 1945–Crooked cucumber: the life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki / David Chadwick.

p. cm.

isbn 0–7679–0104–5

1. Suzuki, Shunryū, 1904–1971. 2. Priests, Zen—Japan—Biography. 3. Priests, Zen—United States—Biography.

I. Title.

bq988.u9c47 1999

294.3'927'092-dc21

[b] 98–46707

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Sequence of photos on page i: Shunryu Suzuki at Haneda

Airport, Tokyo, departing for America on May 21, 1959.

Line drawings by Frances Thompson

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✽ We can thank Bill Redican, former SFZC archivist extraordinaire for getting the whole of CC on file at the beginning of the century - every page including this one plus the errata up to that point.

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