"…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)
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
At 2:15 AM
I dreamt I was watching a black and white documentary film about dogs traveling on ocean liners during the gilded age. About how the dogs of the very rich traveled with their masters and mistresses in the very lap of luxury and how their whims were catered to by the serving staff of the liners. It was a very vivid dream and certainly an unusual one.
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