The 400th blog post~

2007-04-14 00:48:26 [Reply]

I saw a few days ago that you had already passed 400, and I very much wanted to congratulate you.  
In this seemingly tiny but in fact immense blog, I have left not a few bits of nonsense of my own…… The internet is truly a strange thing; I can still remember when I discovered this place last July~~ it was simply like discovering a new continent! Really. I’m very grateful that Gu is not like many people, never replying to my nonsense~~ but instead always giving fairly long replies, from which I really have improved a lot. I think the biggest improvement has been in outlook.  
I very much hope you’ll keep going; in fact there’s really no need to say this, of course you will.  
As for style and such, I’ve never minded. In fact I very much like this kind of style, partly perhaps because when I write argumentative essays I also have a similar feel. On the other hand, in fact I’m still amazed by one thing—I don’t know why, but when something you write involves content that is very hard to understand, I can still grasp part of it; that is to say, the texts you write don’t seem to be as hard for me to understand as other people’s articles. This is also the necessary condition for me to be able to leave my bits of nonsense all along, hehe~~~~`  
“If my writing interests you, hey, then my writing will be written for you to read! What would you like me to write about next?”  
Is this written for people like me? Hehe.  
Yesterday when I saw you open the (music-poetry) section I was overjoyed, hehe, I wonder whether there was any influence from me….  
What should you write? I don’t have any special requests; I just hope you can keep writing with care, whether it’s scholarly material or personal pieces. I’m a faithful reader either way.  
You said, “A reader like that, even one is enough…” Hehe, when I read that, I felt I could hardly deserve it. I have absolutely no ability when it comes to scholarly discussion; this point, this point of contention, is something I simply cannot do at present, so I know that a chatterbox like me is by no means what one would call “enough with just one.”~~  
So I hope someone can truly spar with you in scholarship. Of course, my duty as a purveyor of nonsense will continue firmly, as long as you don’t stop.  
I’m very happy for you that you’ve come out of the gloom. As for the road ahead, young man, you’ve got to work hard!! Hehe!!  
Thank you again.  
I’ll support you.

  
Yi

2007-04-14 21:05:03 Anonymous 218.94.136.176 [Reply]

Hehe, I’ve got some doubts now as to whose blog this really is~~~  
All right, I have another doubt: why are there no friend links? Perhaps this place is too precipitous and I just didn’t find them 🙂

  
Yi

2007-04-14 21:44:13 Anonymous 218.94.136.176 [Reply]

I’ve read some blogs; most are emotional and trivial. Indeed, everyone is rather narcissistic, so the focus of the record is mostly the self~~  
Since the master of this place isn’t afraid to hear the truth, then I don’t have any more scruples either~~  
Yes, since you can come all the way here and write so many words, though I wouldn’t presume to call myself interested, I still want to say: I wouldn’t hope for you to write anything. Since it is your own will that governs, other people’s hopes don’t seem to have much use, do they~  
Some people magnify their moods and invite friends to click through, in order to earn cheap sympathy? Or what? Since it is all fake talk on the page, why look at it at all, wasting one’s feelings!!! Perhaps that’s too extreme~~  
Still, although this place does not, in essence, win by literary grace or ornate prose, seeing rational and suggestive writing still feels pretty good 🙂

  
Yi Wu

2007-04-15 00:15:32 [Reply]

If you really want me to say what I’d like to read from you, then I’ll say this: in the future, if you want to write essays or stream-of-consciousness pieces or the like, definitely don’t be lazy. Even one sentence is fine.  
I think this also fits your re-positioning of scholarship and life, doesn’t it?

  
Gu Wu

2007-04-15 10:55:40 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply]

There are friend links, but they are mainly frequently used websites as well as the teachers’ blogs…… All right, following your suggestion, I’ll add a few friend links again. Some people like to list all the blogs of everyone they know, and it becomes dazzling to the eye, which isn’t very interesting.  
Someone said that the key to the rise of blogs is “voyeurism,” and that is indeed hitting the nail on the head. Many people hope to peek into others’ lives and thoughts through reading blogs, and many people write blogs hoping that others will peek into their inner lives. But I do not hope for this. I hope the blog is a platform for communication rather than a platform for voyeurism. If I want to reveal my life and emotional world, I will try to speak about it seriously, rather than record it in trivial words.  
Recording the jumble of a moment in a few words is not very meaningful. Unless I learn how to record it in poetry, otherwise, given my writing skills, if I write stream-of-consciousness prose, it would be hard to avoid lapsing into triviality. I won’t consider that in the near term—I said before that the writing style basically won’t change.  
Life and scholarship are no longer split into two, but here I am after all still “Gu Wu”—I am half of myself. I will use words to record life and thought, but since it is through words that I express them, they must certainly be things that have already been sorted out and reconstructed. If you want to observe my life and emotions at close range, then you’ll have to come to where I am. The power of words is always limited.

  
Yi Wu

2007-04-17 21:43:56 [Reply]

From this article on, I’ll mention here the things I want to hear about~  
I’d like to hear you talk about: 
1. How to prove the superiority or inferiority, nobility or baseness, of people’s values.  
2. How you view human morality? Do you believe there is such a thing as an absolute, sublime morality?  
3. If you have read Lu Xun’s <药>, I’d like to ask how you see it. Do you think there is such a thing as “medicine”? Can a person be absolutely “pitiful”?  
I am quite confused about the above questions. You could even say I’m a bit distressed.  
3\ I’d also like to hear you talk about morphological mathematics. only brushed over it in passing at the end. But I’m very interested in it.