“ What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change? ”
The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.
~ Madeleine Thien
I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
Was there anyone in this world who could taste something delicious-economic freedom and political reform-a taste that was salty and fattening and sweet and promising, and only be satisfied with one mouthful? Who would wait patiently for nearly a billion people to also have a taste? No, anyone would try to get a second mouthful, a third, a whole bowl for themselves.
How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before
