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  • At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation

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    At Last, I Have Some Confidence in Translation

    Wu Lao-shi’s translation assignment has remained untouched to this day; it will probably get fully underway during winter break. The reason I’ve dragged my feet for so long is, of course, first that my foundation in both English and phenomenology is too weak; second, because of my incurable laziness and old-fox style of doing things. But there is also an indirect factor: I simply cannot stand typing out words from my own pen that make no sense. If it were an English-to-Chinese translation in an English exam, then of course I could quickly write down a load of gobbledygook, just as in a politics exam I can more or less…

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  • How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper

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    How I Forced Myself to Write a Paper

    My way of writing papers is not in the least worth boasting about, and even less suitable for promotion as a model. Everyone who writes with their own blood must have a unique style and method of writing; others cannot imitate it, nor is there any need to imitate it. Of course, my own way of writing is still in the process of being explored, especially since I still have not been able to begin making use of the vast ocean of foreign-language materials; moreover, the purpose for which I write papers is bound to change. So far, the papers I have written have basically all been course assignments, while…

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  • Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring

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    Writing Is a Kind of Outpouring

    I often hear people say “write, leak.” This is not merely a coincidence of shape; in fact, “write” and “leak” were originally the same character. Jinshan Ciba says: “写，置物也。——《说文》。俗字亦作泻。” Perhaps the evolution of “写” into the meaning of writing merely stems from its original sense of “to place,” but Chinese characters are, after all, endlessly subtle. Whether or not this is a coincidence, these two characters have in any case been deeply bound together. People say good prose is “flowed out,” and I know that my own articles really are flowed out. In this way, I suppose they at least satisfy the necessary but not sufficient condition for becoming good…

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  • Comeback Preview~

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    Comeback Preview~

    Locking the blog was pretty pointless; it didn’t help change my way of life as I had expected. Rather, it has made my life even less regular, and there’s even the danger that it will sap my vitality. By the way, my mood lately has been very complicated, with all kinds of emotions mixed together, but on the whole I’m a bit exhilarated, with a strong urge to write; writing with a pen is no longer enough to vent it all~  And then, hey, even Wu Laoshi has started blogging too, wahahaha~~ wahahahahaha~~  So I’m planning to come back earlier than expected, though it will probably be about a month…

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  • What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?

    What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
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    What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?

    What, in the end, is the meaning of Suixuan? Why have I been running this blog? I have more or less forgotten these questions, because blogging has gradually become a daily habit: I write whenever I think of it, without needing any purpose or reason. But after setting it aside for a period of time, the question has surfaced again—why did I want to shut the blog down? And if I do not shut it down, then why should I continue blogging? I dug up a comment I myself left a year and a half ago: https://yilinhut.net/2006/03/24/350.html Gu 2006-07-07 01:59:06 The current orientation of this blog of mine is: First,…

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  • The 500th blog post~!

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    The 500th blog post~!

    A week from now, it will be exactly two years since I opened this blog. Two years, 500 blog posts—quite a brilliant achievement, I’d say?   With the “implementation” of “Suixuan,” my blog ought to move into a new stage. I do not ask for “getting better and better”; I don’t like that phrase. I only hope that I can keep alive the enthusiasm I now have for reading, writing, and thinking, keep alive that carefree and spontaneous attitude, and keep on with my starry-sky philosophy. When the second anniversary comes, I’ll put out a selected collection here, and settle accounts with these several hundred posts and more than a…

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  • Yanyuan, Fourth Courtyard (Writing Plan)

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    Yanyuan, Fourth Courtyard (Writing Plan)

    In the blink of an eye, it has already become the third and final summer of my undergraduate years; in conversation, I have truly become an “oldster.” I am still welcoming junior students in the Weilai Beida Ren community, and this is probably the last year I will serve as a moderator there. Once I go on to graduate school, even if I still have the enthusiasm to wander around the Weilai Beida Ren community, I’m afraid I will no longer be a moderator. Although every incoming class of freshmen tends to disappoint me, overall I still very much enjoy communicating with freshmen, and I enjoy answering the questions they…

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  • About the Papers I Have Written

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    About the Papers I Have Written

    Before I went to Shanxi, I once ran into LY in a bookstore. He mentioned the problems with the papers I write: they involve too much, their contents are too mixed, the theme is not clear enough, the logic is not coherent enough, and the key issue is that they are not sufficiently “standard” — that is, I have not really mastered the conventions of the academic paper. He also said that my year-paper was almost rejected in the reviewers’ discussion, and only because LY spoke up for me did it end up receiving an excellent grade. In fact, I am aware of these problems myself. The general style of…

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  • [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly—From Freshman to Professor”

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    [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly—From Freshman to Professor”

    [U.S.] Charles Simpson: “Doing Scholarship Honestly — From Freshman Year to Professor,” trans. Gao Yuanbao and Li Xiaojie, East China Normal University Press, July 2006 This book is utterly meaningless to me, but I still bought it: first, to keep as part of my collection; second, to see whether it was worth recommending to others (the verdict: not much need). The book is simply about the most basic standards of integrity and norms in college study and research. Honesty is not a skill, but merely an attitude; many things ought to be known without being taught. Of course, after all, young people’s self-awareness is not always sufficient, so these old…

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  • I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!

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    I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!

    My writing has become far too much! With the accumulation I have at present, I really ought not to be writing so much. I need to rein myself in a bit. No need for my teachers to remind me; I’ve begun to wake up to it myself.   The clamor of this age is also reflected in writing—I quite agree. The things I am writing now, apart from assignments and internal exchanges, are mainly written for myself to read. I feel that writing down certain thoughts is very different from merely imagining them in my head; in the process of writing, I can see my own ideas more clearly. Sometimes…

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