that can be found in life even though a strong bass-pedal note of “breath,” “mist,” “transience” or “change” is played against the more central search for some kind of fixed point of reference and meaning in one’s work. This book points to learning and living, that yields enjoyment to life itself and joy in such basic functions of life such as eating, drinking and happiness in one’s work. This bass-pedal note, to speak metaphorically for the moment, is struck immediately