Tidying my house and just found this handout from around 25 years ago when our professor found out none of us knew anything about French literature, so he tore up his class, wrote this handout on the spot, made 20 copies, and said "let's do French literature history for the next hour".
February 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tidying my house and just found this handout from around 25 years ago when our professor found out none of us knew anything about French literature, so he tore up his class, wrote this handout on the spot, made 20 copies, and said "let's do French literature history for the next hour".
My favourite Chinese story comes from 5th-century text Shishuo Xinyu 世說新語. Liu Ling 劉伶 (221-300), one of the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove' 竹林七賢, likes to walk around his house butt-naked. When criticised by others, he replies, 'My room is my underpants. Gentlemen, why are you in my underpants?'
October 16, 2023 at 1:04 PM
My favourite Chinese story comes from 5th-century text Shishuo Xinyu 世說新語. Liu Ling 劉伶 (221-300), one of the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove' 竹林七賢, likes to walk around his house butt-naked. When criticised by others, he replies, 'My room is my underpants. Gentlemen, why are you in my underpants?'
To demonstrate my 'posting range' (it's not all obscene): the 4th-century 'Star Gauge' (璇玑圖, Xuanji tu), by female poet Su Hui 蘇蕙, is a 29x29 grid of Chinese characters that produces 3,000+ unique (and beautiful) poems, and is in my opinion one of the most profound works of literature in history.
October 15, 2023 at 7:12 PM
To demonstrate my 'posting range' (it's not all obscene): the 4th-century 'Star Gauge' (璇玑圖, Xuanji tu), by female poet Su Hui 蘇蕙, is a 29x29 grid of Chinese characters that produces 3,000+ unique (and beautiful) poems, and is in my opinion one of the most profound works of literature in history.