Oct 21, 2010
Last Chance to See
Image credits: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow.
- Heraclitus
- Kid Koala & P Love – Moon River
Nufonia Must Fall Book Tour (2003) - Nujabes - Aruarian Dance
Samurai Champloo: Departure (Victor, 2004) - Bonobo - We Could Forever
Black Sands (Ninja Tune, 2010) - Nouveaunoise - Cinnte
Paraphrase Accolade (Nouveanoise records, 2010) - Emancipator - Lionheart
Soon it Will be Cold Enough (1320 records, 2006)
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century.
“So it isn’t the original building?” I had asked my Japanese guide.
“But yes, of course it is,” he insisted, rather surprised at my question.
“But it’s burnt down?”
“Yes. Many times.”
“And rebuilt with completely new materials.”
“But of course. It was burnt down.”
“So how can it be the same building?”
“It is always the same building.”
I had to admit to myself that this was in fact a perfectly rational point of view, it merely started from an unexpected premise. The idea of the building, the intention of it, its design, are all immutable and are the essence of the building. The intention of the original builders is what survives. The wood of which the design is constructed decays and is replaced when necessary. To be overly concerned with the original materials, which are merely sentimental souvenirs of the past, is to fail to see the living building itself.
- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See.
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Lulz!
Ya ves que si se puede jaja
Por cierto, esos OST de Samurai Champloo la verdad están muy güenos.
awesome post, first time I stumbled here but you’ve definitely made my bookmarks.
Really dug the music too.
beautiful
Thanks for posting the excerpt from Douglas Adams. I will be using it. A wonderful anecdote that fits well with my understanding of the oneness of religion. Each of the Manifestations(Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Baha’u'llah, etc.) are the renewed building but the Designer’s intentions are immutable and the essence of all religions.
Like the music, too.
desde q recuerdo no han pasado mas de dos dias seguidos sin q vengas a mi mente, hoy te soñe como por enésima vez, jaja q tonto no? gracias por el sitio, tiene años haciendome feliz, como estas?
estaba tomada lo q qiero decir es q me gusta mucho tu pagina :)
<3
Just saw KK play moon river live on the 30th – it was absolutely amazing.
I actually put together a very similar mix to this – just insert Moon River between Malcolm Kipe’s – Obscurity of Purity and Bullion “Are You the One”
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Time+Steals+The+Day/38508064
I think you just gave me a new artist to barn with Nouveaunoise, though :)
“this is my grandfather’s axe. My father replaced the haft, and I put a new head on it. It’s my grandfather’s axe.”
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