Tag: Free-form Jottings
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Orvieto
Think the Chinese version is better: 在orvieto考了五个星期的古，开始迷上这个小镇。宁静的土壤，简单的人们。要离开了又开始不舍。Paolo看着我难受，认真地对我说，离别时要想着所经历的美好，没有什么是最后一次。讲着讲着我不敢看他的眼睛。下车的时候他用那卷着r的意大利英语，伸出头对我喊，remember to look at the positive aspects! 我只能嗯一声，猛回头走进我们住的scuola，噎下一句ciao ciao。Arrivederci吧，愿还能再见。 English: Orvieto is a city full of stars. Dense yet light, bright but soft. The rain these days was…
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World of Wires
It was quite a disturbing play so I left a little early because some scenes triggered. Yet it is worthy to write down what I thought since the play's idea is closely related to what I studied in philosophy. World of Wires is a theatrical attempt to disguise…
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五月
忍不住要偷偷的把今天记录下来。 Woke up with a habitual annoyance that I wanted to slap someone so I went for a run. Today was hot, and I got a little dehydrated in the middle of the trail. Well, I sucked it up. Then it got hotter. Spontaneously. The sun shined so hard and…
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The Waste Land
Can't stop recalling the first two verses of Eliot's The Waste Land today. And it is too deep to analyze. So I leave the script here only (the first section of the poem).. And nothing better than Eliot's own recitation of the poem: https:…
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On Happiness
Yesterday I read the commencement speech of UChicago 2017 given by David Brooks. Then I picked up a question that has puzzled me for a long time：what is the purpose of life? It is ironic that I encountered this question again, now, at this state. And somehow I still…