Word: ching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people distinguished between musical sounds and noises. I . . . fought for noises." So defined, Cage found "music" everywhere: in the kitchen, in technology (HPSCHD, a seminal electronic collaboration with composer Lejaren Hiller), in numerology and, most important, in the 3,000-year-old Chinese Book of Changes called the I Ching, whose random, coin-tossed hexagrams formed the basis of the aleatoric, or chance, music he so loved...
...Cage's failure was occasioned by his own audacity and the intractability of human nature. Confucius, who analyzed and annotated the I Ching more than two millenniums ago, summed it up in the book's appendix: "Change has an absolute limit." Cage's fate was that, by chance, he found...
...monk teaches Hsun-ching many things, including written Chinese, English and the mysterious adventures of the Monkey King. He also passes on to Hsun-ching the quest to find a lost Buddhist scroll--the Laughing Sutra--which an American had stolen years earlier...
...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...
...escape from China, Hsun-ching must find Colonel Sun, the man who had saved his life at the waterfall. Colonel Sun turns out to be the perfect companion/bodyguard, considering the fact that he is immortal and has never lost a battle since he was born "seven centuries before the birth of Christ...