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"Re-read the Agamemnon, which is perhaps my favorite of all the Greek plays. Like most of the best authors of antiquity, Aeschylus produces compelling and timeless drama. Once Cassandra arrives, the whole play builds to a roiling boil which is marvelous to read." — May 19, 2026 12:35PM
"Re-read the Agamemnon, which is perhaps my favorite of all the Greek plays. Like most of the best authors of antiquity, Aeschylus produces compelling and timeless drama. Once Cassandra arrives, the whole play builds to a roiling boil which is marvelous to read." — May 19, 2026 12:35PM
“It was intensely cold, with sand swirling in the air. The wind seemed to be racing past overhead, blurring the outlines of stars in the sky, except for a few of the largest ones, which shimmered slightly. There was no wind near the ground, but the freezing cold air was everywhere, opening long cracks in the wheel ruts…”
― Rickshaw Boy
― Rickshaw Boy
“The theater was pitch black, save for the column of rotating light emanating from the hole in the projection room to create an illusory world”
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“The tramcar would have gone on forever, if the city hadn't been shut down. It was. The streets were sealed off. "Ding-dingding-ding" rang the bell. Each "ding" was a small, cold dot: dot after dot, they formed a line that cut through space and time.”
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“The old fellow gazed out at the empty tent, painted a soft green by the carbide lamps, and at the tables, now missing their tablecloths, and felt utterly desolate, imagining that this is what his funeral would be like: the tent would become a place of mourning, but there would be no dutiful sons or grandsons in mourning attire kneeling before his coffin, nothing but a few casual acquaintances playing mahjong through the night”
― Rickshaw Boy
― Rickshaw Boy
“Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.”
― Pereira Maintains
― Pereira Maintains
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