Card +A + -A = O (sides 1 and 2), Junzaburo Nishiwaki, 5.10.1965

A card with handwritten notes made on 5.10.1965 by Junzaburo Nishiwaki, a Japanese poet contemporary with T.S. Eliot, for Nicholas Hagger, explaining Eastern thinking as an algebraic formula, +A + -A = 0, Great Nothing, i.e.the One. The opposites of +A and -A can be Being and non-Being, Being and Becoming, life and death, time and eternity, the finite and infinite, the metaphysical and scientific. This thinking can be found in The New Philosophy of Universalism and A New Philosophy of Literature (1)

A card with handwritten notes made on 5.10.1965 by Junzaburo Nishiwaki, a Japanese poet contemporary with T.S. Eliot, for Nicholas Hagger, explaining Eastern thinking as an algebraic formula, +A + -A = 0, Great Nothing, i.e.the One. The opposites of +A and -A can be Being and non-Being, Being and Becoming, life and death, time and eternity, the finite and infinite, the metaphysical and scientific. This thinking can be found in The New Philosophy of Universalism and A New Philosophy of Literature (2)

Nicholas Hagger