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.
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Chinese web fiction and published books, considered one idea at a time.
The Little Prince and the Work of Attention
A familiar book invites a less familiar question: what changes when we give something sustained attention?
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Hemingway’s fisherman gives us a way to distinguish the value of an effort from the result it brings home.
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