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The Lychee of Chang'an Devoting yourself to something over the long term—even if it is an impractical dream—is a pretty good choice.
What Bad Intentions Could I Possibly Have? In my anxiety on the train back to campus, an animal's perspective gave me a good dream.
A Snow Rabbit Twenty Centimeters from Spring and The Shawshank Redemption A rabbit and a prisoner: two tunnels, two kinds of freedom.
Imouto Life On fading feelings, new encounters, and the work required to sustain an emotion.
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: Reading Notes On running, focus, freedom, and resistance.
A Maverick Pig Reading notes on Wang Xiaobo's A Maverick Pig
Sahara Stories: Reading Notes Sanmao and José, a desert restaurant, and a record of their marriage.
Reading Notes on Rashomon Reading notes on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short-story collection, recording passages and impressions worth returning to.
Pandora's Box On coughing up blood, awareness of death, and personality change.
After The Poppy Reading notes on Natsume Sōseki's The Poppy: attention, drama, and the frankness of human nature.
After Young Babylon Thoughts on Young Babylon, Bai Lan, interesting people, and being nineteen.
Love in Yushima Reading thoughts on Love in Yushima: the innocence of geisha and a love that remains pure.
The Deadline Reading notes on The Deadline: project management, design, and a sense of purpose.
We Who Have No Tomorrow Fell in Love Yesterday Thoughts at the end of winter break, about death, deadlines, and change.
Existentialist Reading Notes Thoughts on death, memory, and compulsion in existentialism.
Demian The turning point Hesse explores through Frau Eva is worth revisiting again and again.
The Girlfriend at the End of the World 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.