no soul

Orland 2022-03-23 09:01:55

Spring dreams are scattered with the clouds, and flying flowers flow by the water.
——Mr. Cao Xueqin

and Huang Renyu talked about the social structure in Chinese history, saying that it is like a huge "submarine sandwich bread", the upper part is called the bureaucratic class, the lower part is called the peasants, whether the economic connection between the upper and lower is smooth or not, It constitutes the basic driving force for the rise and fall of Chinese history. Mr. started by studying the finance and taxation of China in the Ming Dynasty. He is good at using the method of induction to highly compress historical materials, and talking about the past and the present in the way of "big" history writing. Of course, he is better than the historians of the dynasties who used the right time and place to comment on history. Can't bear to release. Thinking of this submarine sandwich bread, it also fits into the distinction between the minority and the majority. The opposition between the two is a gift from heaven, they cannot be matched, and they cannot be mixed up. If the minority is the majority, the people will have nowhere to rely on, and the lessons of history are tragic, and there will be no more words.

It is my helplessness to use the word God-given. This problem has plagued me for a long time, and I have been thinking about it repeatedly, but I cannot get an epiphany. Lu Fangweng's "But I can't see Kyushu's sympathy", Tang Xianzu's "There is only love that is hard to tell", Cao Xueqin's "Implicity", and Chen Yinke's "Looking for Poetry" are all out of the same confusion. Some people are so obsessed with the question of the meaning of life, even if they leave their wives and children, even if they are in the vast sea and desert, they will walk alone without turning back. In the end, this is a decision that is only related to oneself, so it cannot be explained by means of economics or any simple external conditions. For it, even close relatives may not be able to help, so once you make a decision, you will fall into absolute loneliness. . Eliot said: "Anyone who wants to continue to write poetry after the age of 25 must have a sense of history." This sense of history, from the exploration of the past, from the call to the source, from the nostalgia for the hometown, Out of a special desire for one's own position. Human beings are mortal, and God let this mortal being come to this world to travel, what does he want to tell us, who I am, where I am, and where I am going.

The soul has no place to rely on, the horizon is wandering, the long road is long, and it is full of loneliness. The future is full of chance, too unpredictable, and now the only hope seems to be to go to the beginning, to the certain past, to place my soul there, and try to see if I can penetrate the vision of God. The light and heavy film review "Wandering for the Return" wrote brilliantly: "In the pub, Travis handed the battered photo to his eight-year-old son Hunter. The photo was of a deserted sandy field called Paris. . Paris, Texas. Hunter frowned and asked, do you want us to live on a pile of dust? Travis smiled sadly and drank his drink. Perhaps by this time he was already I saw the end." Travis, who knew that he was different from his family, finally chose to exile himself. Suddenly I felt that Travis looked very like Zhang Chu, thin, innocent, simple, and especially distressing. Why seek out Paris, Texas? Because that's where I started.

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  • Bria 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Wandering shouldn't be just for people to see, and it should be talked about to express loneliness. No matter how beautiful the open field is and the sky is burning blood red, they talk to each other through the glass, the isolation between the two worlds is still made.

  • Quinn 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Natasha Kinski gave one of the most stunning performances in film history. / 2019.6.30, the second edition of the Archives, a better look and feel on the big screen, the best road movie about loneliness, love and existentialism. The scene of the club mirror conversation was really amazing. In addition to Kinski's amazing as always, the director also used this scene to make the emotional past of the hero and heroine heartbreaking.

Paris, Texas quotes

  • Walt: We live in the suburbs, but I've got my business in town

    Travis: Oh yeah? What's your business?

    Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising.

    Travis: Oh yeah? So *you*'re the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.

    Walt: I'm not the only one who makes them, Trav.

  • Travis: He thought if she never got jealous of him that she didn't really care about him. Jealousy was a sign of her love for him, and then one night, one night she told him that she was pregnant, she was about three or four months pregnant and he didn't even know and then suddenly everything changed, he stopped drinking, he got a steady job, he was convinced that she loved him now that she was carrying his child and he was going to dedicate himself to making a home for her. But a funny thing started to happen, he didn't even notice it at first, she started to change. From the day the baby was born, she began to get irritated with everything around her. She got mad at everything. Even the baby seemed to be an injustice to her. He kept trying to make everything all right for her. Buy her things. Take her out to dinner once a week. But nothing seemed to satisfy her. For two years he struggled to pull them back together like they were when they first met, but finally he knew that it was never going to work out. So he hit the bottle again. But this time it got... mean. This time, when he came home late at night, she wasn't worried about him, or jealous, she was just enraged. She accused him of holding her captive by making her have a baby. She told him that she dreamed about escaping. That was all she dreamed about: escape. She saw herself at night running naked down a highway, running across fields, running down riverbeds, always running. And always, just when she was about to get away, he'd be there. He would stop her somehow. He would just appear and stop her. And when she told him these dreams, he believed them. He knew she had to be stopped or she'd leave him forever. So he tied a cow bell to her ankle so he could hear at night if she tried to get out of bed. But she learned how to muffle the bell by stuffing a sock into it, and inching her way out of the bed and into the night. He caught her one night when the sock fell out and he heard her trying to run to the highway. He caught her and dragged her back to the trailer, and tied her to the stove with his belt. He just left her there and went back to bed and lay there listening to her scream. And he listened to his son scream, and he was surprised at himself because he didn't feel anything anymore. All he wanted to do was... sleep. And for the first time, he wished he were far away. Lost in a deep, vast country where nobody knew him. Somewhere without language, or streets. He dreamed about this place without knowing its name. And when he woke up, he was on fire. There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed. He ran through the flames toward the only two people he loved... but they were gone. His arms were burning, and he threw himself outside and rolled on the wet ground. Then he ran. He never looked back at the fire. He just ran. He ran until the sun came up and he couldn't run any further. And when the sun went down, he ran again. For five days he ran like this until every sign of man had disappeared.