What Would You Do?
Were you to find
something so beautiful, so invaluable of old, or new, almost forgotten, unknown,
left abandoned, would you gladly pick, save and upload it to You Tube to share
it with the world to be preserved for “eternity”? Would you still do it, bear
the penalty, charges of doing so rather than delete, remove it?
I remember having read
of Mendelsohn who picked up and saved a music score of Bach’s John Passion were
I not mistaken, intended to be used as wrapping paper at a meat shop; of Lin Yu
Tang who bought and saved “Six chapters of a floating life”, a beautiful story,
almost forgotten, in a book stall, now
translated, published in a book: “The Wisdom Of China.”
Sure, we have saved,
stored that which is beautiful, invaluable in books, saved in VCD, DVD, CD, Art
museums, saved by the very rich owner, but in You Tube they’re saved, preserved
for ever, not only for one, the few, the chosen, the rich, ... but for the whole
world to see, to hear, to enjoy.
September 2012
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