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Likiang- Lijiang, Chungking -Chongqing, Chukoliang -Zhuge Liang,Chin Shi Hwangti - Qin Shi Huangdi, Nanchiao -Nanzhao , quite okay to read so far, considering the year it was written,where no official translation has been provided or hanyu pinyin system introduced, the author probably based it on his own/local understanding and pronunciation.

Rhysand is still my fave character omg

Okay I’m a bit weirded out by the fact that they winnowed Nesta and Cassian the lot here and there like some uber driver without payment, like Mor,Azriel and even Rhys???the high lord of night court, strongest Illyrian male,master of Velaris, powerful devastatingly hot and handsome, power of stars and darkness? Like seriously???

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So for the next round, you choose to be a horse. You covet the bliss of that simple life: afternoons of grazing in grassy fields, the handsome angles of your skeleton and the prominence of your muscles, the peace of the slow-flicking tail or the steam rifling through your nostrils as you lope across snow-blanketed plains.

the speech of Pausanias, bookmarked

very glad to see Matthew back happy again, but not in this way

How apt is this, like the first deceased Heather Badcock,just seemed to be the kind of person who cared about no one but herself, continued talking to Marina Gregg and the lady of shallot’s verses “she knows not what the curse may be and so she weavers steadily, and little other care hath she”then Marina Gregg’s frozen look on “the curse has cometh upon me!”

Okay so the moment they quoted my favourite Tennyson poem, albeit a stanza of it I knew I had to read this whole mystery

原著确实和影视改编的有出入，但够真实。许仙是个卖药材的生意人，明知白氏是妖但却依旧痴迷娘子，回去吃软饭

都朝春天去吧，别烂在过去和梦里。

而对手却很谈定，坐在那里随便使唤个人就把事情给解决了。我们寡不敌众，胳膊拧不过大腿啊。顽固是没有什么大碍，但像这样叛逆的行为，既影响自己的学习，又给日常工作带来麻烦，到头来白白辛苦也是徒劳。”

自带棱角的人在世间摸爬滚打，总是会受挫的。圆滑的家伙反而会因为磨平了楼角，活得更加顺风顺水，不会因为那些棱角而弄得自己一身伤。人不可能独活在世上，所以不能只顾着自己的想法而活。这就像和富人作对会吃亏，只会精神痛苦，身体变糟，没人说好，又不能损人分毫。

若是不幸，将残次品带来世上，就只有忍耐，在他能适应社会之前也只能忍耐，别无他法。”

在业余的裁缝屋定制衣服，就必须忍受衣服的不合体。这个社会倒是个好裁缝，为你定制适合你的西装，为了一直迎合你的体格不断修改着。为了顺应社会，优秀的父母亲会结合，将新生命带到这个世上，那是一件令人感到幸福的事情。

“气不顺也没啥，一且理顺了，心情就会很好。人类总是形老色色，所以劝说别人用你的生活方式活着，恐怕难以如愿。用别人握筷子的方式来吃饭，一定会很别扭。自己的面包按照自己舒服的方法奶，那才是最适合自己的。专业的成衣铺在做衣服的时候，因为要穿着舒适，瓶以一定要做得合身。

我们总是想和生活讨价还价，想要夺回生活中我们没有的那些机会，也会想懈怠偷懒，在生存的罅隙中喘息。但是这浮浮沉沉的命运，如果真的想要把握在自己的手里，又怎么能够放松呢？喜欢的事情就去做，选择的人生就要坚持，对自己真正需要的东西一定要明晰，这才能保证不在欲望的都市森林中迷失

在我看来这就像是一个奇迹。我不觉得自己是个了不起的人，或者一个聪明的人，一个有天赋的人，但是我会写作。我只想弄清楚我身上究竟发生了什么而已。并不对其他人而言，只对自己而言。”

“我写小说和故事的主要目的，”他说，“是寻找自我。我六十五岁了，但我还是很好奇自己究竟是什么，我拥有什么，我将会成为什么。你知道，我是一个作家。我还有些名气，我写作三十五年了，我算是比较成功，在世界范围都有些读者，但是我并不理解为什么这些会发生。

”das lied von der erde” mental note to find this piece conducted by seiji Ozawa even though he said he has never recorded it. Murakami said it is the one Asian piece in which an Asian conductor could bring out it’s special flavour

Yet,after all,since there is nothing that does not leave some residue,and memory is a light that dances in the mind when reality is buried, why not the eyes there,gleaming, moving,be the ghost of a family, of an age, of a civilisation dancing over the grave?

Monday or Tuesday -4.5/5
So much lyrical prose encapsulated in a page- it brings you into a moment where your stream of consciousness gets transported to somewhere else. Heron the metaphor? That stream. “Lazy and indifferent the heron returns; the sky veils her stars;then bares them.” The transcendence of time.

A society -5/5
A few ladies form a society and infiltrate the men society, the ending raises awareness-feminism. Somehow this reminds me of Tennyson’s the princess where the prince cross dress and goes undercover in a women’s institution, that was quasi-feminist though