Han Li in A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Patience and Risk
An ordinary beginning in A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality opens a question about ambition, caution, and the value of staying in the game.
Read the essayBooks end. The thinking continues.
A few pages.
A different perspective.
Reading Chinese web fiction, revisiting familiar books,
and finding a little more to think about.
art of patienceAn ordinary beginning. An extraordinary question.
The reading desk
Notes worth sitting with.
The Old Man and the Sea: When Effort Is Not Enough
Hemingway’s fisherman gives us a way to distinguish the value of an effort from the result it brings home.
Read the essayThe Little Prince and the Work of Attention
A familiar book invites a less familiar question: what changes when we give something sustained attention?
Read the essayA book does not have to answer every question. Sometimes it is enough to give us a better one.
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