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douqi ([personal profile] douqi) wrote in [community profile] dankodes 2022-01-29 02:27 pm (UTC)

Re: 3.4

Digression but: the tune known as 'As If in a Dream' was originally known as 'In Memory of a Celestial's* Beauty' by its creator. Then Su Shi** came along and decreed that 'In Memory of a Celestial's* Beauty' wasn't elegant enough. He renamed the tune 'As If in a Dream' as the poem from which the tune originates has the repeated lines 'as if in a dream, as if in a dream'.

*That would be xian (仙), for survivors of the Great Xian Debate of 2021.
**Of course it would be Su Shi.

On a more related note: 'lost myself in the depths of the lotuses' is so evocative, and of course lends itself well to CQL fic.

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