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I thought I'd share some of the stuff I've been reading this past week. All entries are from Stephen Owen's An Anthology of Chinese Literature , ISBN 9780393971064. Opinions are totally mine. Songs of My Cares XXXIII, by Ruan Ji (210-263) One more day, then one more evening, one more evening, one more dawn. Complexion changed from what it was, by itself the spirit wastes away. I hold fire and boiling water in my breast, all things in change are calling to me. Thousands of problems that have no end, more than deftest schemes can comprehend. I fear only that in an instant my soul will be whirled away by wind. All my life I have walked upon thin ice, and none understand how this heart seethes. ~I totally burst out chuckling when I read this. No one understands how this heart seethes? What total teenage angst! But to be fair, this was written during a time of warfare and change in China. The Han dynasty was no more and the time of the Three Kingdoms had been ushered in with mas...