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He used to gaze with mild wonder and sympathy at normal domestic routines and was once heard to exclaim "I hope there is nothing I can do to help!"
--A reminiscence by Hubert Waley of his brother Arthur, the Chinese and Japanese translator, in Madly Singing in the Mountains, an Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley, edited by Ivan Morris
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Love it, love Waley.
Posted by: Ashu | 22 May 2014 at 08:03