Throughout the house is the double thread of tradition and modernity; a sense of continuity with the past, but with a distinctly modern flavour.
The "golden thread" of tradition is vividly demonstrated in a choreographed episode of a soldier kitted out in successive Black Watch uniforms.
So is an organic, discursive pattern of lineal descent, with artists taking cues from their immediate forebears but also rummaging through the past, rejecting and rediscovering and always extending the thread of tradition.
At the Wiltern, Wilco demonstrated that its two main threads of musical tradition — roots music and full-tilt experimentation — make for a grand live act.
Buddhist sutras are rather didactic texts, discourses, or sermons, possibly deriving their name from the sense in which they carry the thread of the tradition of the Buddha's teachings.
The "golden thread" of regimental tradition has, he suggests, been snapped by the regiment's absorption into a larger unit and the disillusion of the soldiers with their task in Iraq.
We should note that even when Nishida broadly contrasts "Western being" with "Eastern nothingness," he in fact immediately goes on to explore finer distinctions between the Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian threads of the Western tradition, and between the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese threads of the Eastern tradition.
Greek ontology later influenced the Christian theological tradition to think of God as the "highest being," such that the dual threads of the Western tradition as a whole took shape as what Heidegger calls "onto-theology".
Röyksopp however, still cling to the last threads of the electronic live tradition.
