(Global Village Department Chat Room Notes vi)

abrook water poem

liupu(aged8) Li Qufei English translation

(mingdynasty,1368-1644)

abrookinfrontofmygate, a ditch of water in front of the door,

runstotheeastnightandday. Flowing eastward day and night.

"hey, whereare youheading,mate?" I asked where to go?

"i’mtot’vastoceanfaraway!" Cangming stopped!

169. Postscript of "Peel Rain"

Jin Yu: "Peal Rain" is a volume of 1 and 2. The first part is more than 60 pages. It feels a bit ashamed to read. Do you know why?

(850x10681/1642 printed 780 thousand words including catalogs and illustrations, nearly 700 pages)

Huilan: Haven’t you said it? The colon has become a semicolon, and there are many typos.

Jin Yu: The first part was completed from July 2014 to the end of 2014, so there are many regrets. The second part to the sixth part was completed from January 2015 to the end of 2018, with significantly fewer typos and more comfortable. Do you know why?

Huilan: Everything is difficult at the beginning.

Jin Yu: The difficulty lies in the unclear vision and the black and white are not clear. At that time, vision had just recovered, so the error was more prominent. Pressing the wrong keyboard from time to time, causing misunderstanding. After the eye surgery on July 2, 2013, I didn’t go online for more than a year, and I spent more than a year on endorsement and resting with my eyes closed.

Huilan: Do you feel much more comfortable to stay away from radiation?

Jin Yu: That's self-evident. Before July 2013, I surfed the Internet for five or six hours every day. After July 2013, I suddenly stopped the Internet and started to feel uncomfortable, and I got used to it over time.

Huilan: If it weren't for the situation, how could you be willing to leave the net? Your eyes are better, but you are reluctant to leave. You hold a magnifying glass in one hand and tap the keyboard in the other. Are you tired?

Jinyu: The daily time of online access has decreased by two-thirds. I have already reduced the burden on my own. Outdoor activities have increased significantly.

Huilan: If you don’t control yourself, you will be blind.

Jin Yu: Since mid-July 2014, I have been online for an hour or two a day on average. When I write a post, I turn on the computer, and when I don’t write a post, I run outdoors. I no longer stay home. My eyesight is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and the errors in the post are sometimes more and sometimes less.

Huilan: The two correspond one by one, and you haven’t learned your lesson!

Jinyu: His eyesight is still good recently and he has basically remained stable.

Huilan: But you should also be careful not to make trouble for yourself.

Jin Yu: My wife reminded me well, and I have paid great attention. I only turned on the computer except for writing posts. I don’t touch any other phones, and I am even more away from my phone and am used to reading on paper. I just have a little regret and I forgot to tell you.

Huilan: Problems are always emerging one after another.

Jin Yu: This time it was not caused by eyes, but by years of reading.

Huilan: Are you talking about symbols?

Jinyu: How did you know?

Huilan: It’s memorable. If you read too many English articles, the comma will be confused.

Jin Yu: That's true. I mostly typed commas in Chinese where the numbers are used. It's really not...

Huilan: If you know your mistakes, you will be able to correct them. It is not too late to make up for the fault. Westernization is not good.

Jin Yu: Chinese does not mean literature, literature cannot be separated from Chinese. I still lack Chinese knowledge, so I try to take time to remedy it in the future.
Chapter completed!