We are discovering the good places, the bad places, the soft places, the hard places. It is just below the water filter, where now I stand for long stretches every day, filling up bottle after bottle with drinking water. A romantic motive may have inspired the composition of Für Elise, it has often been said. In Ray’s 1971 film, Jana Aranya, at a high-society prostitute’s house, the cigarette holder, “gifted by a rich Japanese visitor”, plays Für Elise. Despite its mangled form, it comes to me in all its beauty from my water filter, which plays it again and again, in a loop.

Source: The Telegraph April 16, 2020 20:37 UTC