d6 N[i] - chronotope II
The chronotope is conceived through a series of framing notions: the mediating device of the multiplicity of time; the icon/face of the character that pronounce excess and ecstasies; a scripting device that orchestrates the rhapsody of the city. It is demanded that the chronotopes to be situated and take on the role of orchestrating the event. And it would also demand that the chronotopes to take on the role of this other face, so that a dialogue can be opened up. It makes even more sense when we consider that the whole project of reflecting upon the lost memories of Chang’an started from a rhapsody that recorded the rhymed dialogue between the host from the Eastern capital and the guest from the Western capital. The chronotopes would then become the situated rhapsodic objects/species that allow for the back and forth of continuous dialogue and more importantly re-activates the happening and experience of the rhapsody of Chang’an.
