Extended Reading
  • Ladarius 2022-09-16 23:25:02

    "Catfish" love

    I used to read Liu Suola's "You Have No Choice" in school, a novel composed of countless details. There is one detail that I always remember. In the evening, there were people practicing trumpet in the piano room of the music academy. Yes, start all over again. The people in the opposite dormitory...

  • Pearlie 2022-09-16 23:35:59

    Pioneer Bookstore · "Character"

    It seems that my sense of direction is still ok. I followed the way I used to take the bus to get to the Wutaishan Gymnasium. Then, from the mouths of a pair of young people who passed by, he judged the approximate location of the Pioneer Bookstore, and then shrugged and slipped in like an...

Character quotes

  • [first lines]

    Jacob Katadreuffe: I came to tell you. Today I have been sworn in as a lawyer. You must be sorry but I am sworn in and this is the last time I'll come here. Farewell for ever. You no longer exist for me.

    Dreverhaven: Congratulations.

    Jacob Katadreuffe: You congratulate me? I can't take your hand. The hand of someone who always opposed me.

    Dreverhaven: Or helped.

    [pause]

    Dreverhaven: Or helped.

  • Joba: Why don't you leave our boy in peace?

    Dreverhaven: I'll strangle him for nine-tenths, and the last tenth will make him strong.