Human Arts And Aliens

The Way of Zen by Alan Watts ends with a chapter on "Zen in the Arts." We remember:

the haiku in Poul Anderson's Genesis;

Adzel's hanging scrolls of a landscape and of the Compassionate Buddha and his tea ceremony in "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson";

Aycharaych's appreciation of Tu Fu:

"'...the poet of dead leaves flying amidst snow, cranes departing, or an old parrot shabby in its cage...'"

-Poul Anderson, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2021), pp. 339-606, AT IX, p. 460.

(Aycharaych's telepathic insight into human beings enables him to understand and empathise with their arts.)