The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

[jackshoegazer]

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese scholars and poets of the mid-3rd century AD who banded together to escape from the hypocrisy and danger of the official world to a life of drinking wine and writing verse in the country. Their retreat was typical of the Taoist-oriented ch'ing-t'an ("pure conversation") movement that advocated freedom of individual expression and hedonistic escape.

They play a large role in the Book, and my writing partner has a group on MySpace dedicated to their ideas. The group needed a new icon, and here's what I did.