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Dropped out of context, this sentence can also be interpreted as saying that "An old man/woman without sex drive has no wisdom either."

Are you talking about this book: Ruined by Reading : A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz?

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Glad to see you expose her. Even more glad that you retain your integrity and are not fooled or "flattered" by such a crap. Keep up your good work.

Thanks for sharing this quote. It's well-written.

Good argument. But what do we say to a woman who is both smart and beautiful?

I don't know her, although we both came from Nanjing and I would like to know her if you can invite her to come here.

Well-writren article. Previously, I saw an article by Lu Han touching on the same topic and had a good conversation with the author. It's also on CND, I think. I also saw a TV series about it. I think it's called "Love Comes From Here..."

"Ê×ÏÈ´«ÊÚ¸ø¼¸¸öÏеÄûʵÄÃûÈË". That's a great strategy.

This is a very interesting thread of dialogue or conversation. I'm more interested in how all these thoughts could be coming together here rather than the topic or the starting point itself. At times I otfen feel funny how one thing could intrigue another or one thought could lead to the next. It's amazing how we live together and what a world we live in. The descriptive piece is well written. Just as Maya said, we feel we now know quite a bit about this guy. He is certainly unique or unusual, but also in o

I would like to see this as a poker product. One of my favorite childhood toys is a pair of poker with 108 heroes. One question. Why don't you put in the names of the Chinese 108 characters? Is it your plan to challenge old folks like me who cannot remember the names? Please do us a favor and add in the names.

The poem is beautiful, and the title sounds deep, but I failed to find the link between the title and the text. Please enlighten me. Perhaps I only understood the title from an individual perspective, not collective human beings. Are you adding some new meaning to this phrase and referring to a human/god comparison? But that seems less convincing, as you may say god has no shadow and I may believe it has, for after all god lives in our beliefs.

I certainly agree, and yet for another reason. Instead of "polite is beautiful or polite makes one noble" as Maya suggested, I simply argue that polite makes a real debate possible. Lu Sun already said 70 years ago that "cursing and thretening" is never true fighting. One of the reasons why we Chinese can hardly get into serious discussions and debates is we fail the first test to be polite and follow the rules of a polite conversation or dialogue.

I have been called to join this discussion. This cafe recently has been crowded and noisy, and it even smells of more gun powder than coffee. Hope we can still enjoy coffee, at least at this table. Let me first bring some cookies--reading a little poem by my American friend, Richard Hoffman. The Definite Article The people crowded the square. The crowd peopled the square. The troops circled the square. The troops and the people squared off. The name of the people is they. The name of the troop

If I may call this poem a cup of coffee I would say it's tasty but deserves a better brand name. Honestly I didn't even read it in CND when I first saw the title, because I suspected that it was another piece that is all politically oriented without artictical charm. But I was wrong. Maybe a better title can be something like: "That day in Early June", which may have more artistic appealing. Anyway, glad to see more works with the power of art using that event as a background, which deserves such attention

Getting older? Becoming more mature? Or having learned to enjoy beauty in things less dramatical?

It's really a good poem, especially the last part. The strength of the poem is its images; the weakness is its sound. The sound finally comes strong towards the end and therefore the best of it.

It's true. Yet it's also a chicken and egg chain. It's hard to say which goes first.

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You made a dialogue by cut-and-paste? Interesting.

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My favorite is his string Quartet named American Quartet.

I found that "spring roll" comparison to be very interesting. As I recall, our former minister was only a spring roll uncooked yet when he wrote his fiest short story in 1950s and then was put aside forbiden to eat for so many years. It won't surprise me if it was already rotten by now.

Good comprisons about the two versions. Zili seems to have studied them. I have always wanted to learn translation by comparing these two with the original, but never have the time and determination to sit down and do it. Once alone in Heilongjiang Province, I had nothing to do in the evenings, no newspapers to read, no TV to watch, and I thought I finally had the opportunity. But I don't think I finished any page. My mind was so narrowly developed, and once something is written in a language I just feel th

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I just love Maya' language. Maybe it was because of translation, I just found hers much better than that of this famous author.

Why can't the same publisher publish a collection of essays of Maya? Zili should be able to help recommend her to the publisher. Thank Maya for introducing my book here. I'm flattered but also nervous. It was much easier to chat in this cafe anonymously. As for Buddhist Zhao, that's a life long family friend. I have a photo with him in my book. I feel flattered too that Ms. Du expressed some interest in reading my book. I also had the luck and honor to contribute a short personal essay to an

Good essay! Essayist is the better half of Maya. Looking forward to many more of this kind. My dream and honor is someday I can have the oppotunity to write a preface for a collection of her best essays of my own choice.

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