December 11, 2005

• For Rita Moreno
  on Her Birthday:

  Sex and Art in
  a Chinese Poem
  
  
  In the box-style I Ching
  
  Hexagram 34,
  The Power of the Great,
  is represented by

    .

  Art is represented
  by a box
  (Hexagram 20,
  Contemplation, View)

    .

    And of course 
  
  great art
  is represented by
  an X in a box.
  (Hexagram 2,
  The Receptive)

    .

  The combination of these
  three symbols may be viewed
  as “Power in a  Box,” or,
  according to some scholars,
  “The Art of Great Sex.”
   
  

  From Xinhua News Agency tonight:

  Xbox 360 meets
  cold shoulder in Japan.

  But in another time and place…

  

   

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