Archive for February 23rd, 2010
Too Loud A Solitude
Posted by Sylvia Xiaorui in Books Speak to Me on February 23, 2010
Raining, gloomy day, too messy to go anywhere so spent the whole day reading Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, it’s maybe the first time that I finished the same book in Chinese and English within one day, and wish I could learn Czech the language in an eye to read the original…
Using Hrabal’s own words, I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel!
Hrabal will forgive my speechlessness with awe…
Half-opened Flowers & Half-tipsy State
Posted by Sylvia Xiaorui in Culture on February 23, 2010
The bird nest thought got developed further yesterday when visiting friend’s friend’s friend for tea. Sunny Sunday afternoon, delicious delicate teas, some Taiwan Oolong, some Fujian Cliff, some Hong Kong Pu-erh. As Li Bai said, one cup after another, over and over and over.
Too bad that we were in a New York apartment instead of the mountain where his hermit friend lives, otherwise if we got tea drunk, I could just lie down on the rock and tell the friends that “Now I’m drunk and feel sleepy, my friend you better go – And tomorrow come back if you wish, bring your lute with you!”, even not realizing that I was the visitor coming from the city to drink with the host living among the flower blossom, and the one who should be leaving when the host might be drunk and sleepy!
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