02LITERARY ENTRY · CHINESE CLASSICSChinese classics firstTwenty-two bilingual-or-better long reads—fourteen creative-method essays and eight work notes—enter through nine complete Nine Songs works, Yuan drama, Tang journeys, Wang Wei, Xin Qiji, Li Qingzhao sung anew, Male Slow's classical night road, a cross-language moon motif, whole-song listening, Lingwan's twelve-work portrait, Sample continuity and Why Music, plus Qixi, Yeats and the newest living-screen crossings without a generic ancient-style filter.
22 exact starting entriesOpen this path ↗10LITERARY SCORING · RED CHAMBER CHARACTERS & FILMSRed Chamber character filmsTwenty-seven entries connect fifteen complete works—the New Red Chamber Voices character album, Flower Burial, Lifelong Mistake and ten further songs around Daiyu, Baoyu, Yingchun, Xichun, Wang Xifeng and the Red Chamber song cycle—with six historical character films, ten bilingual-or-better long reads and the complete Dream of the Red Chamber experiment. The characters are not flattened into one hazy ancient-style mood.
27 exact starting entriesOpen this path ↗11EAST–WEST CROSSING · ENGLISH POETRY LIVES NOWEnglish poetry lives nowTwenty-seven entries bring together eight complete songs and films—Yeats in English and Chinese, plus Browning, Keats, Whitman, Housman, Hardy and Shelley—with seven source films, ten long reads and the continuing 100 British & American Poems series. Poetry leaves the glass case and becomes present-tense sound.
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The Long Way Round the LakeHome is ten minutes away, but two people take the long path round the lake. A small grey stone holds a place for that afternoon.Meet this song · listen on Suno ↗
Four Bars Through the WallA neighbour keeps beginning again at the same point. The listener learns the notes—and notices the nights without them.Meet this song · listen on Suno ↗
I Want to Keep You CompanyWarm soy milk, old tickets, an off-key tune and waiting after dinner put love inside both busy and quiet days.Meet this song · listen on Suno ↗
