Comments on: joy sorrow parting reuniting

By: kendra

kendra — Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:06:19 +0000

Hey, thanks for the info on the midautumn festival. Nobody here seemed to know what it’s origins were, though I’ll admit I didn’t actually ask that many people.

Oh, and I don’t like mooncake(the square kind with the egg yolk in the middle, which is all I’ve run into here), and I had it on three or four seperate occasions. Blech.

By: ron reinoehl

ron reinoehl — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:03:56 +0000

Brendan–

Just to thank you for the beautiful poem. The
moon here – I trust it is the same heavenly body
you are viewing – was extraordinary, luminous
pale yellow pumpkin , born in a cowl , then
wreathed in a coil of vermiculite.

Regards,

Ron Reinoehl

By: Rose

Rose — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:28:23 +0000

Brendan, you asshole… I read your website for the first time in months and it’s something I can’t make head nor tail of. You whore.

Hope you’re having fun and getting drunk and having lots of sloppy loud gratuitous sex.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:03:08 +0000

Stewart: Yes, it's the same, except my translation is more accurate and their translation is more poetic. The line in question is "?????," for those of you with Chinese support. The first two characters, qian li, mean "A thousand li," where li is a unit of distance. Next, gong means "share, to hold in common." It's the same gong as in gongchan zhuyi, "communism." Finally, chanjuan is a term in classical Chinese which can mean both "the moon's beauty" and "a beautiful woman." Jacki - Of course I remember. Hi. And yeah; I like Midautumn. Rose: I've been having fun, at least. Mostly. Also, your use of "nor" is incorrect; "nor" is only appropriate when used in a negative construction. Had you said "I can make neither head nor tail of it," it would have been acceptable.

By: Jacki

Jacki — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:00:55 +0000

Just wanted to pop in and say that the Mid-Autumn festival sounds really cool :-) You probably don’t even remember who I am…if it helps any, my AIM name is bwaybound86 :-).

By: Stewart

Stewart — Sat, 21 Sep 2002 08:43:32 +0000

“A thousand miles apart,
Sharing the moonlight…”

Is this the same as “A thousand miles apart, we meet under the moon”? That’s what’s written on the AAU t-shirts from the moon festival a couple years ago, right?

Remember to take pictures, Brendan! And anyone who’s gonna be in Philly, remember to come down to Chinatown tomorrow night for the Moon Festival…there will be fun and merriment all about! Peace.