Reading Notes: Yu Hua's The Seventh Day

Published 2024-07-09 00:00 Updated 2024-07-13 00:00 158 words 1 min read

One Someone asked, "Why are you standing here?" Another said, "Suicide." "Why commit suicide?" "Because I don't want to live anymore." "Why don't you want to live?" "Hell, is that even a question?...

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Source Language: Simplified Chinese, Target Language: english, Translation Time: 2026-05-01 02:24

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One

Someone asked, "Why are you standing here?"

Another said, "Suicide."

"Why commit suicide?"

"Because I don't want to live anymore."

"Why don't you want to live?"

"Hell, is that even a question? There are so many people who don't want to live these days."

Two

He turned around to face me in surprise, his puzzled expression as if questioning me. I told him to walk over there, where the leaves will wave at you, the stones will smile at you, the river will greet you. There is no poverty or wealth, no sorrow or pain, no hatred or revenge... Everyone dies equally there.

He asked, "Where is that place?"

I said, "The place where you die with no body to bury."

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