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	<title>La Société des Flâneurs Sans Frontières</title>
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		<title>W.S.Merwin&#8217;s Message to Po Chu-I (and misunderstanding)</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/03/w-s-merwins-message-to-po-chu-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happiness inexpressive sometimes can be very simple: overhearing someone speaking the accent of your hometown in a metro station eight thousands miles away from the small village, or encountering W.S.Merwin&#8217;s new poem A Message to Po Chu-I on the front page of the New Yorker&#8217;s site.
A Message to Po Chu-I
by W. S. Merwin
In that tenth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>xíng xíng fù xíng xíng 行行复行行</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/03/xing-xing-fu-xing-xing-%e8%a1%8c%e8%a1%8c%e5%a4%8d%e8%a1%8c%e8%a1%8c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems Talk to Me]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready to go back to China with M for several months, saying bye to friends and family. While talking to grandpa this evening, the little chanting voice whispering in my mind again, “on and on, going on and on, xíng xíng fù xíng xíng, 行行复行行”&#8230;
Selection of Nineteen Ancient Poems from Han Dynasty
Author: Anonymous
Translation: Burton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Title</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Senoo Kappa was working on his Indian Sketch book in India, he once asked many locals to describe Mahatma Gandhi in their minds, to his surprise the majority described Gandhi as someone tall and big, and it was to their surprise when Kappa showed them the photo of the short and skinny brown man.
Somehow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burial Songs</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/03/burial-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Edouard died of brain tumor on Saturday morning in Paris, he was 37.
Burial Songs
Tao Yuanming
Translation: David Hinton
1
Whatever will live will die. I died
young, though not shortchanged by fate.
Last night, I was like anyone else.
This morning I&#8217;m listed among ghosts.

The spirit thins away who knows where,
leaving a dry body inside hollow timber.
Looking for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Did Lao-Tze Say That&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/02/why-did-lao-tze-say-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been one of the most beautiful winters I have had. Boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower; endless snowfalls roll its waves hour after hour. Matsuo Bashō would be happy to say 
“now then, let&#8217;s go out
to enjoy the snow&#8230; until
I slip and fall!” 
いざさらば 
雪見に転ぶ 
所まで
Still lingering in Bohumil Hrabal’s Too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Loud A Solitude</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/02/too-loud-a-solitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books Speak to Me]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Raining, gloomy day, too messy to go anywhere so spent the whole day reading Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, it&#8217;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&#8230;
Using Hrabal&#8217;s own words, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-opened Flowers &amp; Half-tipsy State</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/02/half-opened-flowers-half-tipsy-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The bird nest thought got developed further yesterday when visiting friend&#8217;s friend&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parade Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Went to Flushing to see the Lunar New Year parade, it was&#8230; rather disappointing and boring, the most memorable performance was a traditional Korean music band with twenty some Korean aunties and uncles playing nabal, janggu, taepyeongso and buk in gorgeous Korean clothes. Well, I have to confess that the dim sum before and Dan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tao Yuanming&#8217;s Self Funeral Oration</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/02/tao-yuanmings-self-funeral-oration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a late autumn evening, cold and chilli. Sixty-three years old Tao Yuanming was seriously sick and feeling the death approaching again through the wicker gate. Born in a noble family, served as government officer, lived through death of two wives and retired into farmer&#8217;s life for more than twenty years, he lifted up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confucius&#8217; Delight</title>
		<link>http://sylviawen.com/2010/02/confucius-delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sylvia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder whether it is a curse for Chinese literati to have Zhuang Zi and Tang Yuanming sitting in the middle of the long river of history and culture drinking wine and talking about butterfly. And even if you can not choose your parents and ancestor, whether it is a collective choice of educated [...]]]></description>
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