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“土断是南朝中央政府加强税收和控制人口的方式之一，但是人们有同等花样繁多的办法逃税漏税。公元480年，虞玩之就户籍一事上书齐高帝，谈到百姓完全无视土断，从本土流亡他乡以避免缴税；也有数家群居一处，假装属于一个大家庭，从不进行户口登记；又有人甚至借秃顶伪装僧人以逃避缴税。但是最严重的是庶族家庭伪造士籍：‘又有改注籍状，诈入士流，昔为人役者，今反役人。’”

Reading about the monasteries' ways to economise and enrich their means of income and their lives made me think of how some buddhist and taoist temples in chongqing took up varied trades like pickling and sewing in early 20th century

"When I went out to meet my mother on her way up to bed, and when she saw that I had stayed up in order to say good night to her again in the passage, I should not be allowed to stay in the house a day longer, I should be packed off to school next morning; so much was certain. Very well: had I been obliged, the next moment, to hurl myself out of the window, I should still have preferred such a fate. For what I wanted

I felt the freedom of the author to write indulgently, for long hours uninterruptedly, dwelling on fine wefts of observations and sentiments, giving free rein to his imagination. I'm jealous3

Acker and Sarah Kane remind me of each other, if SK possesses a finer organization of sentences and precise, intricate poetical bursts.

Acker and Sarah Kane remind me of each other, if SK is more finely organized than Acker in her sentences and bursts of intricate poetry

"... evil (that is the religious word for wildness )"

In the political and socioeconomical cynicisms of Acker I still see some vein of the characters, when Janey paralleled her father sending her away to NYC to Hester Prynne's husband sending her to America to prepare a way for him I went straight insane. The incest in this and EotS, is heavily metaphorical and political (esp in Empire of the Senseless) but I still see something personal to the characters

This after the Waves, both immediate and commanding in their reach towards sensations

郑樱桃居然翻译成Cherry Zhen吗。。。

Sorry but I can't think of a single person who would translate 清明 to "pure brightness". This is such ridiculous translation lmao

The translations of cited texts are so unserious LMAO

"La Veneziana" is unusually captivating (compared to other stories that preceded it in this anthology)

I'm tearing my hair out Fergus Wolff and Mortimer Cropper can't win AARGHHAGHWAHH

I feel that I who is intrinsically quite impatient am tamed for a while by the patience and quiet of the writing

Indeed the extent of agency exercised by the dan actors is debated because are they truly completely a reflextion of literati's sexual taste

I wonder if author will address the gender-nonconformality or transness of the dan-s, which is nonconsensual gnc in many cases of course

“勋还年轻，他的嘴唇尚未接触过任何人的嘴唇。他用嘴唇所具有的所有最微妙的感觉，微微接触了枯萎的百合花瓣儿。”

"But the following passage, marked with rare psychological depth, from Marcault and Therese Brosse's excellent work, will help us to determine the main theme: 'Forests, especially, with the mystery of their space prolonged indefinitely beyond the veil of tree-trunks and leaves, space that is veiled for our eyes but transparent to action, are veritable psychological transcendents.'"

This is definitely more like a detective and mob violence story than what the synopsis led me to believe.. Thought it was like Flesh + Blood (1985)

The moral, religious this-and-that bocomes grating without the wild and free thinking.. It's not that they're even favorably depicted I just can't stand it lol

The entire chapter of Addie is breathtakingly beautiful, I tried to highlight and quote some passages but all of it is simply too stunning