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K'uei Hsing A Repository of Asian Literature in Translation by Jerome P. Seaton et al, 1974
This appealing volume will introduce Western readers to the remarkable diversity and complexity, as well as the rich humanity, of Eastern literary traditions. A wide variety of ancient and modern literary forms is represented: poetry, short story, essay, folk song, and Jataka tale.
I noticed a friend here hadn't posted in a while and got a little worried. Then I realized they had blocked me. I have mixed feelings about that, obviously, but I guess I prefer that reason to anything more serious.
Sometimes my interest in state spying and my interest in stalkerware overlap in weird ways. For example, Kenya arrested four journalists, seized their devices and returned them with FlexiSpy installed:
UTF-8은 뛰어난 설계임 ------------------------------ - *UTF-8* 은 수백만 개의 문자를 표현하면서도 *ASCII와의 하위 호환성* 을 유지하는 *가변 길이 인코딩* 방식 - ASCII와 동일한 7비트 영역(U+0000~U+007F)은 *1바이트* 그대로 사용해, ASCII 파일은 곧 유효한 UTF-8 파일이 됨 - 그 외 문자는 *2~4바이트 시퀀스* 로 표현되며, 선두 바이트의 *비트 … ------------------------------ https://news.hada.io/topic?id=23059&utm_source=googlechat&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=1834
Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic, 1985
Selections from the Third to the Tenth Century
In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language.
America's fundamental problem is that it has never meaningfully punished rebellion, insurrection, or even outright treason.
Pardons were issued for the Whiskey Rebellion, the Civil War, and January 6. Nixon committed treason to get elected, Reagan worked to keep American hostages held for political gain to get elected.
Until and unless the United States decides to punish those that actively undermine the country itself, we are destined to fail; it is inevitable that more attempts will succeed.
I've been taking Ozempic for the last couple of years with dramatic effects.
But now for the last year my weight is stable at a reasonably healthy level for the first time in a long time. Getting prepared for the big decade, I just turned 70 this year. It's a daunting moment. I remember when my grandfather was 70. It seemed like an impossibly age. I was 15.
Anyway I haven't said anything about it on my main blog. Not sure how people would react.
But this blog, daveverse, is finding another audience. I haven't made sense of it, people are liking it somewhere, but we don't have a Like button on the site. I'm thinking they must be doing it on Mastodon, but where? This is something we have to work on for Mastodon. There need to be places, and I always assumed they were there but now I think they aren't. This is not a good thing to be confused about.
Anyway back to Ozempic. I realize now how it works. After two years, I don't get an emotional rush out of eating. It isn't about satisfying a need for love any more. It's just eating. And I swear I taste so much more of the food now than I ever did. Eating for nutrition and eating for sensation.
My old grandfather used to call this the Art of Living. Maybe this attitude toward food isn't only coming from the drug, maybe time does that too.
My message btw to people who feel 70 is impossibly old, you won't feel that way so much when you are 70 because you keep learning and seeing things you didn't see before. It's part of the trip. I almost died a few times earlier in life, glad I didn't so I get to do this.