The Paper Menagerie
โ Metadata
- Author: Ken Liu
- Tags: #scifi
๐ Short Summary (1 takeaway)โ
๐ง Why I am reading this book
- Was in a science fiction reading binge
๐ Great quotes
โThus, while the Telosians do not forget, they also do not remember. They are said to never die, but it is arguable whether they ever liveโ (pg 194) #quotes โFor a moment, as I listened to her, I felt as if I could step through the distance between us and hear an echo of the world through her ears, see the stars through her eyes: an austere clarity that my made heart leapโ (pg 198) #quotes โBut being the mirrors for each otherโs soul has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroying in their unionโ (pg 196) #quotes โThe fading sunlight holds infinite beauty, though it is so close to the dayโs endโ #quotes
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๐ Detailed Summary
- State Change
- Amazing short story that tied a fresh concept with a life old wisdom of growing up and finding yourself
- In order to find who you truly are, you have to take steps outside of your comfort zone and experience things that seem out of โcharacterโ
- Mono no aware
- The saying means โthe pathos of thingsโ
- A Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence, or transience of things
- Similar to the Latin phrase โlacrimae rerunโ which means โtears of thingsโ
- The saying means โthe pathos of thingsโ
- All the Flavours
- In 1870, Chinese population was around 28% in Idaho
- Apparently, in some Idaho mining towns they still celebrate Chinese New Year
- Want to visit to see if its true