A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, “Well that’s an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while.” You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it’s enlightening. And then there are [...]
I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post. First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest [...]
As the credits scrolled by, I thought to myself, “色，戒” is the perfect name for this movie. The translation into English seems more stilted; in Chinese the pair sound like they are intended to balance each other, almost as duals. Is the scale sliding from lust towards love? Or from caution to trust? In the [...]
Bob brought home a dog. It’s actually composed of two ideas. Two menacing teeth pinch out into the air, like rodent mandibles on display at the airport gallery. It’s watching me by the glass door of some house. I can’t decide whether it’s waiting to welcome me, or standing guard against me. Bob goes in. [...]
Clouds of bubbles fitted in among the shards of tea leaves in my tea bag. There must be millions of them squirming around as the bag bobbles, vying to move upward, to surface, to breathe. Who is keeping track of them all? Do they all disappear or at least take a breather when I’m not [...]
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