One speech, a plain, bricks, a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. Then the words scatter, and what is left is Bashō’s pond in five tongues at once.
Version 001 / 046 Changed
One whole word changes at each step, and every version keeps the 5–7–5 of the original. Until the Lord comes down, every version reads as a sentence; after, the words go over into French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Italian one at a time, and nothing reads. Playback rests in the confusion.
Every version, in order · choose one to read it above