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What? Mother-daughter relationship turns to be sisters-in-law? How did the village people react to this? This is so un-Confucius, right?

奇普里安.波隆贝斯库 吗？ 小时候在只有地雷战地道战可看时，记得看过“奇普里安.波隆贝斯库”这么一个电影，故事其他情节已没印象，但影片中的大学生群在宿舍外大声呼唤奇普里安的名字，热情似火，就像今天的追星族之于pop star.

Once upon a time (actually, not that long ago), I put a piece on CND titled "Iris Chang's Legacy". It was a story named "Words Before Dreaming" written by a student in a creative writing class who won a second place or third place in a writing contest. The author said he was inspired by Iris Chang's two books, "The Raping of Nanking", and "Chinese in America". Words Before Dreaming Robert Costello Engl 227 Creative Writing 03/28/2005 Uncle still comes to my bed each night to read to me words fro

Interesting and good analogy. You mean "identity"? The status? I like 龙's works very much but it's not surprising that she would certainly identify with Taiwan (politics) than her "motherland" (culture).

Can't agree more. Nowadays both sexes work but women have a "second shift" at home with the chores after a long day's work outside. Women have a long way to go to reach equality with men.

Right. Some book (don't remember which though) says sex is a way one feels alive, and of course, it produces life/reproduces.

It seems a common practice in Beijing for taxi drivers to refuse business,they'd rather wait there doing nothing than making money. It's Chinese styled something...

A couple of bi, good point. Are they the earliest documented bi-couple? RE“两齿微露”，就是说她有一对虎牙，... Showing 一对虎牙 would involve the whole row of upper front teeth, but here, it is just 两齿微露. Likely it's just two slightly protruding teeth, the two upper front ones.

Hahaha, another ghost story! Good imagination. What happened to the one about changed cellphone ringtone?

Right--没有战争，生活安定，就ok了。 The problem is there is a war. And it is a rediculous war. Thus you have to do something to change it, so you go vote.

Well said!

方壶斋好想象力! 有聊斋又有“与时具进”。 怎么想到要这样写的呢？

To this statement, you hardly know what to respond--laugh? Or frown? Or both. Should we be happy for our fellow-countryman's getting away from trouble? Yes? Should we be happy the reason the person got away is he looked exactly the same as all the other Chinese to the authority therefore he was given the benefit of doubt? Hmmm... maybe we each should get a clone, just in case, to cover up trouble for us. On the other hand, this seems a common mistake one can be easily guilty of. Someone asked me how was

"深井"这个故事让人垂泪。 有英文版吗？用来向老美朋友解释什么是文革什么是上山下乡再好不过。 那段police brutality令人想起江岩生写过的“狗日的警察”。 (唉，还是没有戒成网!) 沙子

我在西恩地上对这个话题发过言。 {我觉得李银河关心女性的生存状况，挺有道理的。当然把传统上让人不齿的“马路天使”同良家妇女相提并论,让人有点儿伤心。看大伙儿热烈讨论的，像是风烟四起，一家伙出来好几条线。} ...{是这样？ 难怪好像有人要“驯服”他们的太太呢! 妇女地位低得... 什么世道! 李银河是发人深省。} 但好像刚刚给temp掉了。原因是转了新浪的廖祖笙博客：家长抱怨学校乱收费，儿子遭难，“跳楼自杀”--廖梦君事件[家长抱怨学校乱收费，儿子遭难，“跳楼自杀”。这个案子好奇怪! see 廖祖笙 的博客http://blog.sina.cn/m/

这个qinggang 让人puzzle. 故事写的很感人。同feiming写的父亲故事一样令人深思。 “这世界上所有贫苦的女人都是我母亲的化身”说得好! 可另一方面(在哪条线？--don't remember)又觉得漂亮的女孩子当博士是不可能--好像有点歧视女性吧。也许“男尊女卑”已深入潜意识？不过这倒不奇怪，整个社会都这样。唉，连妇女自己都“重男轻女”("...母亲爱我，甚至重男轻女，爱哥哥和我超过了爱小妹")。 性别平等has a long, long, long, way to go. 希望qinggang有一女儿，通过大家努力,在她那一代真正看到男女平等。 沙子

谢谢你在此讨论这个事件。都成了“黑暗的旧社会”了。 不过好像老百姓不怎么在乎这事儿。

Yeah, right. I was inspired by this (no kidding). Isn't it nice that we have a nation of poets!

..... (沙子: speechless, sigh...)

美图! 叫一声好。 沙子

i like this stanza-- 我无法预知我的未来 也不敢提及我的过去 我是一个漂泊的人 在这雪原中被丢弃 我两袖寒风一无所有 除了我的尊严和三个无邪的儿女 It should be a sad poem but somehow it sounds as if it's full of hope and enthusiasm for life, maybe because of the last line

Indeed, there are lots of stories in those small pieces of paper! A friend's namecard was marked with the title "PhD", when asked what his dissertation was about, he answered, "oh, I haven't written it yet." (smile--) ....好歹算把这些业绩都写上去了，看完了忘了名片主人是谁。

...and she's gone. Hope you had a good time during the Mid-Autumn Festival! Here is a "poem" I wrote about the moon, just for fun! 冷月 月上高天 俯视人间 不明白 底下的人们 为什么 成群结队，兴高采烈 在庆祝些什么 “我天天来，天天去， 这是我生存的必须” 月儿不明白 自己的形象在他人眼中 居然会随不同的日子 有弯有圆的不同 这里的人，那里的人 秋天的人，冬天的人 竟会为月亮忽喜忽悲 月儿吃惊 可她不动声色 仍旧 一如既往地在高空中缓缓 滑行， 滑向永恒

It's true cats can be dangerous if you are pregnant. A parasitic disease called "toxoplasmosis" is related to infected cats. Toxoplasmosis can cause miscarriage to mothers, and physical malformations, mental retardation and low birth weight/prematurity in babies. Cat lovers should think twice before you decide to have a baby.

廖康讲得好。 回国时在街上买冰棒，吃完到处不见垃圾桶，就手持包冰纸和棒棒一直走到家才扔 进垃圾桶。亲戚笑我，说干嘛，人都随手一丢。 也许真是文明问题？是一场文革把中国的文明给革掉了？ 刚到美国，朋友说老美里面尽是活雷锋。真的，受了不少帮助。 也许是经济发展问题？比如说，如果人们习惯用纸巾处理吐痰，就不会一口吐在地 板上还用脚搓吧？

小孩子其实会有一些奇奇怪怪的想法。薇薇会以为天上有好多月亮。我怎么从来不曾有这么个问题呢？ 想起来，小时候有一个困惑是，我的眼睛怎么看不见自己的脸？如果不照镜子的话，天知道自己长什么样？! 不知何时，这个问题不再让我困惑，尽管到现在仍旧不知答案。 中秋快来了，讲讲月亮的故事，怀念故去的亲人，她们在天之灵应感到几分安慰。 btw, 你小时候呢，有过什么怪怪的问题吗？--沙子问

谢谢废名大侠评水露诗。 恕我越俎代庖，将朋友水露诗贴在此坛。我已经告诉她了，取得她的同意。但愿她能从国内顺利找到玛雅咖啡馆，同大伙儿交流。 沙子

Wow, didn't know years ago there was such a heated discussion on literature dishonest and plagiarism at Cafe. I read both Chen's and Du's writings and liked both. I don't think there is ANY difference in quality of their writing, but of course, in quantity, Chen produced more words. Chen wrote more, that's all. From the harsh way 实而不华 criticized Du I suspect that 实而不华 might merely be a pen name of Chen's own.