-
The Paradox of First Love: Discovering Self in Joyce’s Dublins
Our lives are actually very hazy. What hazy means is that we don’t know what we can do at best and what we can do at worst. To a large extent, we go through life without knowing much about ourselves. However, first love sometimes pushes you to release your inner passion, allowing you to reach an extreme state and finally understand what kind of person you are. Joyce’s collection of short stories “Dublins” contains fifteen stories, the fourth of which is called “Eveline”. Evelyn was a girl who lived a very ordinary life. Later she fell in love with sailor Frank, who wanted to take her to Buenos Aires in…
-
Reflecting on the Complex Nature of Infatuation, First Love and Unrequited Affection
Loving someone obsessively is the process of turning from thinking that you are rational to being a love lunatic. People in love will hold each other up on the altar for no reason and become a god-like existence. If there are less debauched adventures, less absurdity, less frivolous and ambiguous affairs, how can we live with courage in the face of thorns? Ten years of seclusion in Taoyuan, coffee time in Second Life, a cup of UCC every morning, Master Fengyun incarnates the daily life of a lazy master, stubborn and unconvinced youth is far away, just remember a certain summer, a room at the south exit of Shinjuku, Tokyo…
