“Don’t you see?” he said, with a wave of his arm. “’Marry thyself to the truth’ means that you shouldn’t become infatuated with a mere mortal but should seek the eternal.” “But, Takuan,” Otsū asked impatiently, “what is ‘the truth’?” Takuan let both arms fall to his sides and looked at the ground. “Come to think of it,” he said thoughtfully, “I’m not really sure myself.”
