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Galactic Odyssey: Humanity’s Rise, Fall, and Triumph Across Millennia
Have you ever contemplated the distant vista of our world, envisioning its visage in millennia or tens of millennia hence? Have you ever pondered that the habitation of humankind shall transcend the terrestrial confines, extending to the infinite reaches of the Milky Way? Isaac Asimov, a luminary American science fiction savant of the mid-20th century, wove a tale set twenty millennia hence in his opus “Galactic Empire”. Its resplendent tapestry of imagination and its pulse-quickening narrative have ensnared myriad aficionados of speculative fiction, hailing it as the “Magnum Opus of Science Fiction”. It sparked the genesis of a pantheon of sci-fi opuses, such as “Star Wars” and “Three Body”. Its…
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The Resilience of the Human Spirit: A Journey Through the Hardships of Life
In the vernal season of 1994, Mo Yan’s progenitor succumbed to an ailment. He couldn’t help but experience a gamut of sentiments as he recollected every minute detail of his bygone days, wherein his mother diligently toiled to nurture him and his three siblings, unflinchingly facilitating their education and literary pursuits. To commemorate his maternal figure, he conceived and penned the opus titled ‘Voluptuous Bosoms and Expansive Gluteal Regions,’ drawing inspiration from his mother’s life experiences. Wang Zengqi opined, ‘This is a solemn, earnest, and emblematic composition that encapsulates the extensive annals of China’s centennial history.’ Within the tome, Mo Yan intently focuses on the ill-fated matriarch, Lu Xuan’er, and…
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The Secret to a Peaceful and Leisurely Life
People always yearn for and pursue a peaceful and leisurely life, but in the process of obtaining this kind of life, the most taboo thing is to have a taste of it. Many phenomena in nature all reveal this truth to people. The voyage 368 of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) completed drilling in the northern part of the South China Sea on June 11, 2017. During the two-month voyage, more than 1,600 meters of seabed cores were drilled. After the rock core is cut horizontally, a series of fossil remains are presented in front of people. It tells people: Only by diving deep into the depths can we…
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The Power of Ants: A Story of Sacrifice and Determination
Whenever I sit at my desk and think hard, I see the tombstone made of small stones by the window, and my thoughts ripple like a drop of ink falling into clear water. One day in late autumn, I was carrying a whole day of schoolwork pressure, and I was walking heavily on the tree-lined path. I accidentally found a group of ants poking out from behind the fallen leaves, and was rushing towards a pile of biscuit crumbs a few meters away. I have always disliked small insects like ants. Their strange body structures seem to have just evolved from bacteria, like decayed mechanical products, and the six limbs…
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The Rainy Season in Yilan: A Story of Hope and Resilience
My township is surrounded by mountains and facing the sea. The terrain is like a dustpan, and it is easy to catch wind and rain, especially in autumn and winter, when it rains nine out of ten days. In the past few years, the greenhouse effect, climate change, anti-El Nino phenomenon, the northeast monsoon has hit, and a big hole has been broken in the sky. Once the rain falls, day after night, night after day, endless. On rainy days, I often look out of the window and say, “Bitter~bitter~” that comes from the call of the white-bellied crake in the bushes behind the house. During the heavy rain, they…
