— Anonymous Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” impressed me significantly since he narrates the thoughts, feelings and experience of death so vividly, and more importantly, he reveals life wisdoms and society problems beneath Ivan’s death. It reminds me of Cao Xueqin’s words about what is a great work “a grasp of mundane affairs is […]
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With just words you feel all these emotions
— Anonymous One of my favorite readings so far is “This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen”, by Tadeusz Borowski. It is an easy to read text that is about events that happened, not this specific story but the history around it. It gives us, with plenty of details, about how those people lived […]
What is important and how we value things
— Anonymous Reading “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Tolstoy opened my mind in so many thoughts and feelings. Spending most of our time in our homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I think some of us have lots of free time and either we want it or not, we spend some of it thinking […]
This text can connect to how people are feeling being quarantined during the Covid-19 pandemic
— Sumi Paul Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, is about a man who spends his whole life trying to get higher and higher in his career path. However, it is only when he is in his deathbed that he realizes the mistake he made throughout his life. Instead of focusing on the things that […]
Dark and light yin-yang are especially significant in the times we are all living through
— Anonymous I would consider the poems from the Tao Te Ching to be great works of literature, and I think the messages the poems portray, associated with the dark and light yin-yang are especially significant in the times we are all living through today. There is a strong sense of darkness associated with the […]
