Musicians, too, chase this feeling. The lo-fi hip-hop beats that millions study to? Those beats are built on the aesthetic of meguri —the sound of a train passing, the crackle of vinyl, the sample of a voice from a forgotten movie. The artist is the samples, hoping to rediscover a sound that got lost 40 years ago.
When you are your love life, you are searching for the person whose orbit was always going to collide with yours—but only after both of you had traveled far enough to appreciate the collision. It is the old friend you run into at a train station in a country where neither of you live. It is the conversation that happens after the restaurant has closed, standing on the sidewalk in the rain. Searching for- meguri in-
Meguri cannot be scheduled on a calendar. It can only be recognized in retrospect. Musicians, too, chase this feeling