TO THE READER A root that stops drawing water does not simply rest. It begins to kill the tree it was meant to feed. We tend to think of loyalty to a tradition as a matter of guarding it, walling it off, keeping it pure. Mitose taught almost the reverse. The surest way to destroy something you lo...

TO THE READER The most valuable thing a man owns is sometimes the thing he did not reach for. And the surest way to fail a test is to know you are being tested. There was a document that changed the course of an entire art, and it spent part of its first afternoon in a waste basket. This was not ...