The Thinker said: The Dual Collection of Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe

Author: Wang Xiaobo Li Yinyang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: What is the most important in a person's life? It is love, an indispensable emotion and comfort that one cannot be without for a minute. Love and emotion are like sunshine and air, giving every living person the vitality to live, the strength and courage to grow. "The Thinker Speaks" is a dual collection by Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinyang! Silence is what most people do in Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum," where he writes about a person who refuses to grow up. Little Oscar discovers that the world around him is too absurd, so he resolves to always remain a child. In some mysterious way, a force fulfills his determination, so he becomes a dwarf. This story is too magical but very interesting. It may be impossible to always be a child, but it is possible to maintain silence. Around me, there are many people like me—in public, I say nothing, but in private, I am full of witty remarks. In other words, I say everything to those I trust and nothing to those I don't trust. At first, I thought this was because of the harsh period I went through (the "Cultural Revolution"), but later I realized it is a common trait among Chinese people. Ms. Yangmingtai has expressed great, asking why Chinese people don't speak. She has lived abroad for many years and has almost become a straightforward foreigner. She sees silence as cowardice, but that is wrong. Silence is a way of life, not just for Chinese people but also for foreigners who choose this lifestyle. I know an example like this: He was the great composer of the former Soviet Union, Dmitri Shostakovich. For a long time, he wrote his music without uttering a word. Later, he suddenly dictated a thick volume of memoirs, signed each page, and then died. As far as I know, the main content of the memoirs was...