Reading

A style I love: it showed me that twenty-first-century Chinese literature holds more than pain literature and realism—mono no aware, for one.

The turning point Hesse explores through Frau Eva is worth revisiting again and again.

Thoughts on death, memory, and compulsion in existentialism.

Thoughts at the end of winter break, about death, deadlines, and change.

Thoughts on Flowers Yet to Bloom and the images it completes from Zi Bu Yu.

Thoughts on *Three Days of Happiness*: death, encounters, and ultimate concern.

Thoughts on Young Babylon, Bai Lan, interesting people, and being nineteen.

Reading thoughts on Love in Yushima: the innocence of geisha and a love that remains pure.

Reading notes on Natsume Sōseki's The Poppy: attention, drama, and the frankness of human nature.

On coughing up blood, awareness of death, and personality change.

Reading notes on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short-story collection, recording passages and impressions worth returning to.

Sanmao and José, a desert restaurant, and a record of their marriage.

Reading notes on Wang Xiaobo's A Maverick Pig

On running, focus, freedom, and resistance.

On fading feelings, new encounters, and the work required to sustain an emotion.

A rabbit and a prisoner: two tunnels, two kinds of freedom.

In my anxiety on the train back to campus, an animal's perspective gave me a good dream.

Devoting yourself to something over the long term—even if it is an impractical dream—is a pretty good choice.

A cleverly interwoven timeline and a somewhat shallow exploration of death and lifespan.