daisysactuallyjewish:A mood This panel recalls to me (and may be intentionally based on) a 2,000 yea
daisysactuallyjewish:A mood This panel recalls to me (and may be intentionally based on) a 2,000 year-old folk tale from China, about an emperor, the Emperor Ai of Han, whose (male) consort Dong Xian fell asleep in his arms. Court business intruded, and Ai was called urgently. But so great had grown the emperor’s love for Dong (heh), that in order to avoid his waking, the emperor ordered his sleeves be cut off rather than waking the fellow. He ordered this, even though it would mean he had to appear before his court sleeveless, and thus they would know his shame with his courtesan. Even today, in Chinese, homosexuality may be referred to allusively as “the passion of the cut sleeve” (“duanxiu zhi pi”, 斷袖之癖). On that legend, here is is a piece composed in the early 1970s, by rock associate and future film-scorer Michael Kamen. I believe it may have originally been conceived as music to a ballet of this story. -- source link
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