"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Friday, July 4, 2008
First Thought of the Morning
I thought I would catch the first thought of the morning, before it escapes from me into the dawn. I woke up this morning either to the sound of a piano or from a dream of the sound of a piano.
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