tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post3060488981154895589..comments2024-03-27T11:10:57.384-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Wavelets Tanka by Ignatius FayChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-63938320370518431312015-11-14T09:42:05.828-05:002015-11-14T09:42:05.828-05:00Through well-chosen evocative phrases (3 am, warm ...Through well-chosen evocative phrases (3 am, warm rock, tales of time past, and whisper of the wavelets), Ignatius effectively conveys the speaker's state of mood/mind in an un-Fitzgeraldian way:<br /><br />in a real dark night of the soul <br />it is always three o’clock in the morning, <br />day after day.<br /><br />― F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up "<br /><br />Note: Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.<br />― F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up "Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com