Today we have 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai, one of the great stories of Zelazny's final years. In it, Mari returns to Japan from a time in America for a final encounter with her husband, who has undergone a digital apotheosis. She uses a series of Hokusai's prints to map her journey, though, as Chris Kovacs points out, the route she took would have been extraordinarily circuitous and impractical.
Hey! Hokusai is another Halloween baby! He can party with me and Keats!
Ideally, I would have a haibun for this story, which is a prosimetrum, (hey, new word for Josh!) a combination of poetry and prose. Here's the thing, though.
I barely know Western poetry well enough to match poems to stories. I wouldn't know where to begin with haibun.
So we're going to go with Basho's final haiku and hope it serves.
旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻るtabi ni yande / yume wa kareno wo / kake meguru
falling sick on a journey / my dream goes wandering / on a withered field
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