Quotation

I feel that for a reader to truly encounter an author sometimes depends on finding the right moment. (我觉得鲁迅是不属于孩子们的,他属于成熟并且敏感的读者。同时我还觉得,一个读者与一个作家的真正相遇,有时候需要时机。) === Money is an unseemly topic that may well be deplored by gentlemen of lofty principle. But I tend to think that people’s views differ not only between one day and the next but also before and after meals. When people admit that money is necessary to feed oneself but still insist on its vulgarity, then one can safely predict that they still have some undigested fish or meat in their systems. They’d sing a different tune, I’m sure, if you made them go hungry for a day. === Peking and Tsinghua. Its nom de plume was Liang Xiao, a play on words for “Two Schools.” === In those days there was no relief from the searing heat of summer, and often I would wake from an afternoon nap to find the entire outline of my body imprinted in sweat on my straw bed mat; sometimes I perspired so heavily it bleached my skin white.