Unfair
The passage I translated yesterday was honestly pretty hard to wrap my head around. As usual, it’s not really the language or the words that create a problem. Rather, the problem is trying to figure out what in the world is actually going on.
And it doesn’t help to run into articles that talk around the actual point rather than pointing out the obvious.
The real purpose behind yesterday’s passage is not to make some subtle or hidden political commentary. There might be some foreshadowing here, of course; however, we’ve already seen so much foreshadowing in Dream of the Red Chamber that it’s not even noteworthy by this point.
