“Well, Adam, the Shipibo-Konibo only receive an icaros, or song, if the singer is ‘there’ on the same side as the spirit who created it. In this way the past and present converge. The flip sides of the same cosmic coin. That definition of fidelity makes sense to me. But Lenny believed in teshuva, the Talmudic power to reach back in
time and transform the significance of one’s past deeds.”
I keyed in on this quote this time around and…