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Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.06
Jin Kemu: “Candle Flame Ashes—The Melody of Thought”
Jin Kemu: “Wind, Candle, Ash — The Melody of Thought,” Sanlian Bookstore, July 2002 Recommended by ZW. This was the last collection the old man personally compiled before his death, so naturally there is nothing to be said about its contents. ZW said I could learn from his style, but how on earth could I manage that?!? To write essays that come so effortlessly, so gracefully and fluently, one needs, beyond vast learning and a mind that remembers widely and knows both ancient and modern, China and the West, decades of hard practice as well. Besides, my own style is only suited to science or philosophy; I can’t do literature…
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2006年2月6日
Caution in Speech and Writing

Life & Notes2005.12.29
Caution in Speech and Writing
I have always placed great emphasis on “慎言” — caution in speech. You can tell from my article “I Despise Plagiarism in Papers” that I attach great importance to being responsible for one’s own words. I believe that every extra piece of writing left in the world is an extra responsibility taken on; things in black and white cannot be denied simply because one wants to deny them. I will have to be responsible for everything I have ever written for my whole life. If one day I discover that something I wrote before is problematic, I cannot just toss off a line like, “That was what I wrote back…
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2005年12月29日
The 100th Blog Post~

Site Matters2005.12.29
The 100th Blog Post~
Unknowingly, I’ve already written so many blog posts—within less than half a year, and mostly in just this past month. Most of my blog posts are long, really long; quite a lot of them run to one or two thousand characters, and everyone says I’m “prolific.” Too bad the comments are really scarce—only 44 posts in total… Seeing Chong Ge’s piece with just six Chinese characters rack up more than eighty replies, sigh… But then again, my blog really is rather boring. Unlike most blogs, which write diary entries, impressions, very everyday things, I spend whole posts writing out my thoughts; of course that would be dull. It’s not that…
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2005年12月29日
Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing

History of Science & Scholarship2005.12.10
Knowing—Thinking—Saying—Writing—Doing
Reading philosophy to a certain stage will, more or less, bring some progress. At first, reading philosophy may be completely bewildering, leaving one utterly at a loss; then, one can gradually understand some things to a limited extent, and turn everything one has read into knowledge to remember—that is a step up the ladder: “knowing.” This is the most elementary step, but it is the foundation. Without the accumulation of knowledge, any “thought” one has can only be rootless thought. From “knowing” to “thinking of” is a second advance. From my own experience, I believe many people who read philosophy go through such a stage: one becomes able to resonate…
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2005年12月10日
I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~

Life & Notes2005.12.09
I’ve kind of regained the feeling of writing essays in high school~
Recently I’ve managed to churn out so many essays in one go, all of them scribbled casually on paper during self-study and then typed up directly when I got back. It reminded me of high school, when every week I had to write an essay for my Chinese teacher; in fact, these recent pieces have hardly improved on what I wrote back then. At the time, the weekly essay was usually just a little over a thousand characters, and I would generally riff on assorted issues from heaven and earth, antiquity and the present, the universe and human life. It was probably not much different in style from what I’ve…
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2005年12月9日
I despise plagiarism in academic papers!

Life & Notes2005.11.22
I despise plagiarism in academic papers!
There are two reasons for writing this blog post. First, someone said that I had put some papers and such on my blog, which was not very good; second, someone suggested borrowing a paper from me to read, in order to help his classmate write a paper. I’m not afraid of plagiarism for the papers I post on my blog—if you want to plagiarize, then go ahead. If this paper is not very well written, then—obviously, my writing level a couple of years from now should still improve, and the paper you plagiarize can only ever reach my past level; if this paper is written extremely well, then I’m even…
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2005年11月22日