The Temple of Heaven and La Messa
When I was in Beijing a few weeks ago with a group of friends from Mexico, we visited the temple of heaven. One part of the temple has three clapping stones. The idea is that if you stand on one stone and clap and you hear one echo. If you stand on the second stone and clap then you hear two echoes. If you stand on the third you hear three echoes and unfortunately that is as high as it goes because the fourth stone fails to produce any echo.
Now because we were there on the last day of our trip we were all becoming tired with Max, the tour guide, and even the Fonz and his bus driving skills were losing their charm. So we hear about the the clapping stones and different people stood on different stones and started to clap. Now in between the claps and the echoes of the claps there was this faint feeling that moved us all.
What was this feeling, well it was the dramatic slow clap like when a round of applause is started at a time that might not be appropriate but you still do it for lack of anything better to do. So one by one we all joined in and the slow clap grew to a small roar in the middle of the Temple of Heaven on the clapping stones. By this point our guide, the famous fearless Max was hiding.
After the roar of the clapping was in full effect someobody bursted out with the first few words of La Messa. This is a song about a strip club and the message behind it is that the table that claps the most gets a free table dance. You now understand how the slow clap can easily lead into this song. So there we stood, 23 of us without shame singing a song about a strip club and receiving a lap dance in the middle of the Temple of Heaven. good times...
When I was in Beijing a few weeks ago with a group of friends from Mexico, we visited the temple of heaven. One part of the temple has three clapping stones. The idea is that if you stand on one stone and clap and you hear one echo. If you stand on the second stone and clap then you hear two echoes. If you stand on the third you hear three echoes and unfortunately that is as high as it goes because the fourth stone fails to produce any echo.
Now because we were there on the last day of our trip we were all becoming tired with Max, the tour guide, and even the Fonz and his bus driving skills were losing their charm. So we hear about the the clapping stones and different people stood on different stones and started to clap. Now in between the claps and the echoes of the claps there was this faint feeling that moved us all.
What was this feeling, well it was the dramatic slow clap like when a round of applause is started at a time that might not be appropriate but you still do it for lack of anything better to do. So one by one we all joined in and the slow clap grew to a small roar in the middle of the Temple of Heaven on the clapping stones. By this point our guide, the famous fearless Max was hiding.
After the roar of the clapping was in full effect someobody bursted out with the first few words of La Messa. This is a song about a strip club and the message behind it is that the table that claps the most gets a free table dance. You now understand how the slow clap can easily lead into this song. So there we stood, 23 of us without shame singing a song about a strip club and receiving a lap dance in the middle of the Temple of Heaven. good times...
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