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Kevin
@kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
Historical Chinese literature, poetry, and philosophy. Co-host Rereading the Stone podcast https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social

book reviews & discussion of Ming-Qing literature, science fiction, etc. https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
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I do appreciate this novel, though! If anything, this is something I've been struggling to articulate lately... its failures are its longitudinal successes? This clunky novel is a treasure, partly on account of its author's aesthetic imperfections? How he just lets the contradictions flow...
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I do appreciate this novel, though! If anything, this is something I've been struggling to articulate lately... its failures are its longitudinal successes? This clunky novel is a treasure, partly on account of its author's aesthetic imperfections? How he just lets the contradictions flow...
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Subtext, did I wrong you?

I'M SORRY
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
adaptation of "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" where Baoyu is allowed to live, as long as—
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finishing Lin Lan Xiang 林蘭香 (late 18th century, maybe later), a kind of... Jin Ping Mei derivative that I think (?) is trying to be progressive on female representation (but not entirely successfully... it's not the best novel)
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
my full aristotle speaks only in math equations that also somehow double as regulated verse
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
it should be all "push"

it's absurd that all the books I need to read aren't emailed to me directly

everything needed for serious scholarship should all be in one downloadable folder

I shouldn't be spending any time thinking about databases whatsoever
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM