Lu Xun's Complete Collected Essays-(Complete 7 Volumes)

Author: Lu Xun / Country:
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The last segment of "Gossip" in Issue 55 of Modern Review was based on a declaration by female university students. It stated that only twenty female students remained at Normal University for Women, while the rest had enrolled at Women's Normal University, deeply regretting their past being "hypnotized by certain newspapers." Fortunately, they saw the declaration and came to their senses. They then asked, "What if one hundred ninety-nine out of two hundred students (according to rumors, this was the number before dissolution) enrolled at Women's Normal University? What if all two hundred students enrolled? Would the Student Affairs Maintenance Committee of Normal University for Women even admit new students to restore it? We might wonder who the Maintenance Committee is actually maintaining for. What is their purpose?" This, of course, would be incomprehensible to Professor Chen Yuan, who had not maintained Normal University for Women in summer but now stepped forward to maintain "justice." Although I am a committee member of the Normal University for Women Maintenance Committee, I also know another possible explanation—twenty students all running to the larger side, and the Maintenance Committee should have long been flattering Chang Shizhao! I am also someone who "loves to say things like a child of four or five" and enjoys speaking like a servant, so what I say might be a joke. However, since I have started this, I might as well say a few more words: What if there were two hundred and one students out of two hundred who enrolled at Women's Normal University? What if all the Maintenance Committee members enrolled at Women's Normal University? What if one hundred ninety-nine students enrolled at Women's Normal University, but the remaining one refused to maintain it? I think these clever questions would likely be unanswerable by anyone. This is truly too absurd—even a child of four or five wouldn't go this far—so we shouldn't underestimate children. P550 (Volume 1)