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Visiting future world is like opening a chinese fortune cookie to read, "soon you'll be finished with dinner."
The chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. they possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. they invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in china was taught to read.
It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. that is a balanced trade. they got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. we got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.
You can't get good chinese takeout in china and cuban cigars are rationed in cuba. that's all you need to know about communism.
The confucian concept and chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
Pound's translation of chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing i read. eliot a little bit later.
I did not have a very literary background. i came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in japanese and chinese poetry in translation.
I'm not a machine. i get really motivated, then i fall off the wagon and want to eat chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!
Like a chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
Maybe i'm like acts of congress or your favorite chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. i'm a real study in contrast, i expect, looking from without. but it adds up to what you get on stage.
You can't help but feel that the chinese people are a subspecies.
God bless the universe, god bless japanese, chinese, indians, all of them and let's have peace.
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