Comments on: 'beautiful,' and other words

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:41:38 +0000

I almost kicked a taxi cab today. I was thinking of horrible things to do to him, but I think the heat sweated the madness out of me. Maybe it’s different in Beijing, but up here in Harbin, it’s crazy. I feel like I’m back in America, except there are no traffic laws. The cars don’t stop! If you get squashed, it’s your own darn fault.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:54:11 +0000

That’s the most succinct and accurate description of Beijing I’ve read in a long time.

By the way, when you say beautiful are we talking mei(li)?

By: 香山异人

香山异人 — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:56:00 +0000

behind every beauty, you can only find ……

By: Prince Roy

Prince Roy — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:26:17 +0000

glad to be up and running so I can visit your always worthy site again. Hey, I think I can almost understand your almost pubescent infatuation with Maggie Cheung. I’ve seen a lot of her early flicks recently and she’s kind of cute (when she doesn’t have a death stick lit in her mouth).

By: paul crudden

paul crudden — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:08:56 +0000

bravoand I can ditto all but the erudite
sentiments above when you put something between coversI WILL FREE MYSELF OFGUILT KEEP US POSTED WERE EVER AND WHATEVER
MEA CULPA
PAUL CRUDDEN

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:35:27 +0000

zhwj – That’s like the Bai Juyi poem about Laozi, the one that goes

“He that talks doesn’t know.
He that knows doesn’t talk,”
–said Laozi in a book of 5,000 words…

By: carlo

carlo — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:03:51 +0000

you are a brilliant catcher of rabbits, mate. i almost feel guilty i’m not paying for reading your stuff. and wherever it is that you decide to go in the end, make sure that your scribblings are still available on the web. there are quite a few rabbits out there.

By: chriswaugh_bj

chriswaugh_bj — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:17:19 +0000

Beautiful.

I’ve been trying to describe the scene under Jinsong Qiao in the evening: two Yangge groups practicing under the bridge, one at each end while the traffic roars around and over them. I just can’t capture the mood, though. You, on the other hand, have done a brilliant job of describing one of Beijing’s little pockets of beauty. Good on ya.

By: song rong

song rong — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:34:19 +0000

amen

By: zhwj

zhwj — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:54:15 +0000

Citing Master Zhuang about the inability to describe something? This was, remember, a man for whom there were never enough words to describe the sound of flesh ripping from bone…

I enjoyed your description, although it could be that my memory of those areas filled in the ideas not conveyed in the words.