實、虛｜fULL, eMPTY

實、虛｜fULL, eMPTY

人生百感，尤不為解。
There are hundred feelings of life, especially when man is not understood.

魯迅（一八八一年九月二十五日至一九三六年十月十九日，現代文學中心人物、作家及哲學家）－《野草》之《題辭》，第一句：
Lu Hsun*₁ (25th September, 1881-19th October, 1936; was a leading figure of Chinese modern literature, writer and philosopher.) – the first sentence of “Foreword” of “Wild grass”*₂:

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當我沉默著的時候，我覺得充實；我將開口，同時感到空虛。
When I am sILENT, I feel fULL; I oPEN my mouth and feel eMPTY.
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nOTES:
*₁: Lu Hsun is also known as Lu Xun, his real name is Zhou Shuren, he also was an editor, a poet, a literary critic, en essayist and a translator.

*₂: A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain as powerful today as when first written. Echoes of these stories are audible in fiction from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.Like many Chinese intellectuals searching for a solution to China’s problems, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine, which he later abandoned for a career in writing. As a writer he hoped to be a far more effective weapon in the effort to save China. A prolific author of pungent and “dagger-like” essays, Lu Xun was also a tireless translator of Western critical and literary works.”Wild Grass” is a collection of twenty-three prose poems written between 1924 and 1926. (Foreign Languages Press, 2000)