Cinderella

Author: Chen Tong
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Newton said, "I am great because I stand on the shoulders of giants." Cinderella said, "I am Cinderella because I stand on the shoulders of the prince." Come, all the princes, come, let me weave for you! Let me weave for you with the garlands of youth! Cinderella longs for the arrival of her prince, just as Gorky's seagull longs for the arrival of the storm. By the way, I don't think the seagull ever longed for the storm; that was Gorky's own longing. But writers like to take their own desires and understand them as everyone's desires, just as Cinderella likes to say her desires are like planting willows without intention and yet they grow into shade. Lies! If it's without intention, why bother planting willows? If you don't expect to become a princess, why bother getting into the palace to dance?