SUMMER FIREWORKS: Exploring Some Tacit Connections IMAGE: Some people gazing at some fireworks along a river at twilight with a strange textual sky with pseudo-structures vanishing. Daiki: Why the fireworks along with a college entrance exam? An-Yi: (scratching her head) Yeah, and why are the oil towers juxtaposed with a river scene? Satoru: Eto…do you think the sunset symbolizes anything? Chariya: Good questions. It would be tempting to say each of these things are unrelated, but I'm starting to believe no things that appear together are unrelated. Bhäraté: We may never know… Conveniently, the artist is silent, probably laughing in his grave. Chariya: (nodding) Too often we make a pretense of knowing things we do not fully understand. Shall we move on? ===================================================================================== from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some thoughts about anomalies, magic, and liminal transitions. KEYWORDS: sunset fireworks, incongruities, textual portents, liminal transformations Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 1995 Shizuoka, Japan ≜ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/middle.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/BambooGroves/chun.htm