Patricia Conde Web Oficial. Fuck Yeah Chinese Myths! So, this was the book that I referred to when writing these four posts about the Tang dynasty.
If you’re a longtime reader, you’d know that I love love love the Tang dynasty, and I really wanted to know how people lived during that period of time. Yes, that’s right, lived. I always end up writing about famous people in that era, and I wanted to know how non-royal people actually lived, and I got my answer with this book. Okay, so, like my previous review, the dude who wrote this book was not Chinese, and he is very likely of European descent, so I had to bear that in mind when reading this book.
But that aside, this is actually a fun read—Benn intersperses his facts with anecdotes that are almost folkloric. (Sidenote: I mentioned this to one of my friends, and she said that the idea of history being a series of events told factually [that is, without supernatural elements] is actually a construct of the Enlightenment. I totally recommend this book. Gerardo_orta. Quotes. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr. "I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still" Sylvia Plath "Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second. "One’s own thought is one’s world. “The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. "The daisy field is on an island in the sky. "When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. “Your head is a living forest full of song birds.”
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