Jia Baoyu's talent is finally shown
Truly appreciate your extensive notes! This is one of the passages dense with cultural details where I get frustrated with Hawkes lack of footnotes.
Thanks!
I think the hardest thing about this novel is trying to understand and map out all the literary allusions. The more you dig in, the more interesting it gets. Unfortunately, David Hawkes didn't spend a lot of time really opening the novel up.
Truly appreciate your extensive notes! This is one of the passages dense with cultural details where I get frustrated with Hawkes lack of footnotes.
Thanks!
I think the hardest thing about this novel is trying to understand and map out all the literary allusions. The more you dig in, the more interesting it gets. Unfortunately, David Hawkes didn't spend a lot of time really opening the novel up.