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dankodes * I found the best option for the weekly reminder emails, via Gmail. The external service options are more involved than our purposes require. Does anyone know anything about how to arrange an Apps Script? Basically all it has to do is tell ten people, on Saturdays, to come and get their juice/poems.
Until someone knows what to do there, I'll send out manual messages weekly. If you'd like to receive these and are not getting them, please let me know.
* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* Every week I search the poems' English results to see if I can find any scholarship or neat bits and pop the results in Resources. Here is this week's collection.
**NEXT BATCH APRIL 26.**
Until someone knows what to do there, I'll send out manual messages weekly. If you'd like to receive these and are not getting them, please let me know.
* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo.
* IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN or have other ideas, please let me know on this post.
* Every week I search the poems' English results to see if I can find any scholarship or neat bits and pop the results in Resources. Here is this week's collection.
**NEXT BATCH APRIL 26.**
Re: 196. 小宛 - Xiao Wan
What Heaven confers, [when once lost], is not regained.
Perhaps attesting to a belief in innate dignity, which stands to be squandered, rather than which must be earned.
"Wasps of the genus Sphex (commonly known as digger wasps) are cosmopolitan predators that sting and paralyze prey insects."
Whatever the fuck a green beak is, we have not seen the last of it:
Minor odes of the kingdom, Decade of Sand Hu, Shijing II. 7. (215)
"They flit about, the green-beaks,
With their variegated wings."
"With a handful of grain I go out and divine,
How I may be able to become good."
a nice line
"We must be mild, and humble,
As if we were perched on trees."
huh?
why two such similar ends in a row?!
Re: 196. 小宛 - Xiao Wan
Interestingly, Baike's article on 如履薄冰, says it's an idiom meaning "as if walking on thin ice" meaning potential danger, be cautious and alert. Originating in the poem Xiao Min (195). [So this poem doesn't get any credit for it?]