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The Most Passionate Person In The World

Jia Baoyu and the theory of lust and passion

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Daniel Evensen
Sep 06, 2025
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The Most Passionate Person In The World

We’ve finally gotten through all the poems and can get on with the story. This is a pretty deep passage with all sorts of philosophic and literary implications. Among other things, today’s passage takes us back to the legend of Gaotang Shrine that we saw just a few weeks ago.


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