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Dan D'Agostino's avatar

Thanks Hyun Woo! I've been working on music for this for my own project. I love your explication and want to add that it occurred to me that the "flipping the palm" is part of the dance. Change happens as easily as a dancer turns the palm of her hand. Change is the dance -- containing all ocassions: fierceness, grace, beauty, destruction, etc. Du Fu was indeed a genius!

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

What a beautiful poem! The grace of dancing. The cruelty of Time, passing so well expressed in the old poetry.

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