[OCTOBER 2026.]
Book of Serenity No. 28 Through the Translation Machine
There is also
covering
shame
a scene underground
[Yi-Tai+Me][Yi-Tai+Luo]
(It’s hard to let go of my heart) Monk said.
There is a place to raise.
When they were almost to the company housing, a comet drew a large arc across the sky up ahead, then vanished.
“Often, to love is to seek out pain,” Heishi said.
“But we’re still drawn into love with all our hearts, just like we long to read and write. The difference lies in how love’s outcome cannot be predicted, while reading and writing are sure to bring about happiness. That is why humankind invented literature,” Xiao Sang said.
—Can Xue, The Enchanting Lives of Others
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples. La mar no tiene naranjas.
A student recalls Beckett’s lectures from a 1931 course at Trinity College:
I remember his assessment of the Racine situation, A loves B and B loves C but there is no mutual desire. He called it “the great pagan tiger of sexuality, chasing its tail in outer darkness.”
Apparently he also drew a diagram, which seems very on brand.
Andromaque (the most terrible play of Racine, thought Beckett) actually has a four-term directed path, A → B → C → D, exactly the same as the middle of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when the potion goes sideways. So what’s the difference? “Temperament”!
