A Restless Bee

A restless bee said: "I listened to Schumann's Liederkreis sung by Hermann Prey. I listened to the whole thing, in one go. Then I listened to Sena Jurinac's rendition of an aria in Eugene Onegin, an opera by Tchaikovsky/Pushkin. And then I suddenly remembered, not surprisingly, Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind - not necessarily the film, but more the novel."

The restless bee began to talk: "In the 19th century, in Russia . . . in the United States . . . but what about the Sinocentrism and its critics in Korea and Japan? Well, the Romantics . . . the center-periphery knot . . . why, Eurocentrism and Sinocentrism were never the same. But the process of nationalism . . . the hunt after the universe went awry . . . it began, not ended, with a deadly explosion. Who knew, that the world . . . had no fixed center . . . ."

The bee began to talk, but dusk was falling, and it had to go home. So it went home, and dusk fell.