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VI. Epilogue ...bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. -Bertrand Russell- Gohk used to mutter : No art without intoxication. These days it seems that he revolves in his mind some other abstract meditation beyond the subject of art. He likes to take a line, as above, from Bertrant Russell . And he sometimes gets ..

2. The 3rd flight to Portland At my first visit to Portland, this city let me have an encounter with flamenco completely unfamiliar to me. In case of my second trip to this city in the summer 2001 I stayed there a couple of months with one purpose:to see and hear flamencos performed in the very city where I was hooked by the far-off and strange sound of flamenco cante. By acci..

V. A poem can be pure dance 1. A pure desire A mind becomes pure when it desires for a thing only. So your mind can be pure by getting indifferent to other things. Multifarious desires make it impure. - kierkegaard - Pure Desire and the Boundless Imagination! Last summer this line of the logo of 2007 Keochang International Festival of Theatre happened to catch my eyes. In summ..

3. Flamenco baile and Bullfight Tramping about Madrid I happily came across a flamenco book titled '!flamenco! '. I opened it once and again everywhere on the road and in cafes or the hostel. In retrospect , the scene still lingering in my eyes is it that happily I alone sat by the wayside, with this book under my arm , caught in particular by the lines below: '...that the mov..

9-2 Spain, Mar., 2006 To: Joon Good morning, friend! A message just to say hello to you. In Seville at the bus terminal, my back on the trunk of a tree, I am scribbling notes of impression on the capital of Andalusia. Then during my travelling in Spain, I have come to Seville 2 times, but in this city I just hesitated at the outer block, failing to go into the downtown. Whenev..

IV. Dance of the soul 1. bailaora flies to South Korea In December, 2005 flamenco dancer, Lau with a guitarist came to Masan ,a city of Korea for her performances. It is about 4 years since Gohk met the bailaora in Portland . Gohk invited her to 'Night of Flamenco', two flamenco performances to be held in the end of the year, one time in Masan and the other in Haman, a county ..

3. Leaving Portland wenn einer fortgeht , muss er den Hu mit den Muscheln, die er sommer u''ber gesammelt hat , ins Meer werfen und fahren mit wehendem Haar, ............. ............ Herz, Anker ud Kreuz, und fahren mit wehenden Haar Dann wird er wiederkommen. Wann? Fag nicht when you leave, you must throw your hat full of shells collected in Summer into the sea, and leave f..

2. Morning Dew Through the period between the 1970's and the 1980's when South Korea was put under the rule of a military regime. During this hard time of darkness and turmoil , youths would express their feeling of oppression and resist against the dictatorial govement by singing Morning Dew in chorus 'Morning dew' Seeing the long night out forming twinkling morning dew prett..

III. Bailaora and writer 1.You are inspiring! One evening in a Chinese restaurant in the downtown of Portland I happened to sit at table side by side with a man ,his wife and their daughter.There the foodstuff that I alone was eating unexpectedly induced them and me to the pleasant conversation on flamenco, as below. It was her father who began to say first to me. " What dish ..

3.Ay! Ay! Ay! Do you love flamenco? if so. please to listen to Manolo Caracol singing the siguiryia , a deep song of flamenco, on movie or video. The cantaor would begin the cante with an introductory !Ay!, the lament with which all siguiryias begin. You would give your ears to his heart-rending cante, sometimes wavering and meandering, of the !Ay! held for around 40 seconds. ..