Chapter 35 The Duties of the Rich (3)

("Kojin Waka Collection" was jointly edited by Ji Guanzhi, Ji Youze, Fan Hanoi, and Mibu Takacen in the early Heian Dynasty of Japan. Japanese tanka has basically replaced long songs by the Heian Dynasty and has become a separate form of tanka. --Annotation ) I put on my mother's yellow sponge ball headphones and read lines from my father's "Anthology of Classical Japanese Poetry" so as not to hear their depraved and dirty conversation.Afterwards, Colombe and Thibbel were alone in the room, making all sorts of obscene noises, which they knew I heard well.It was even more unfortunate that Tibbel was left to eat because his mother had invited his parents over for dinner.Thibelle's father was a film producer and his mother ran a gallery on the banks of the Seine.Colombe adores Thibelle's parents, and next weekend they will go to Venice together for a holiday, which is a great relief for me to have three days in peace.

So, at dinner, Tibel's father said: "What? You don't know about Go? This magical Japanese game? I am now planning to publish Shan Sa, a French-Chinese female writer. The French novel "Go Girl" is nominated for the French Thought and Literature Prize. It also won the Goncourt Prize for middle school students and became one of the best-selling novels in France from 2001 to 2002.--The film adaptation of the novel "Girls of Go" in the translation notes. This is really a magical game, equivalent to the Japanese version of chess. Go." He started explaining the rules of Go, which doesn't matter much (what nonsense), first, Go was invented by the Chinese.I know because I have read a manga about Go, called "Soul of Go"; second, Go is not the Japanese equivalent of chess, except that it is a board game, and it is black and white against each other, and cats and dogs The difference between Go and Chess is fundamentally two different things. For Chess, you must destroy others to win, and for Go, you must build to survive; The rules are wrong. The purpose of the game is not to capture the opponent’s other pieces, but to build a large area of ​​territory. The rules of Go capture clearly state that if you eat the opponent’s pieces, you can commit suicide first. There is no clear prohibition that you can’t To die, and so on.

So, when "Mr. Pustule Son" said: "The hierarchy of chess players starts from level 1, then goes up to level 30, and then goes to rank, 1st rank, then 2nd rank, and so on." I couldn't bear it. , and said: "It starts from level 30 and then goes up to level 1." But "I'm sorry I don't know what I'm doing sir" looking ugly and opinionated, "No, my dear miss, I think I'm right." I shook my head in disapproval, and Dad frowned, Glaring at me, but the worst was yet to come, Tibbel actually came to my rescue, saying, "Yes, Daddy, she's right, 1st grade is the strongest." His math was "really good" , he can play chess and go, I hate this idea, good things should belong to good people, but after all it was Tibel's father who was wrong, and my father said to me angrily after dinner: "If If you open your mouth just to make fun of our guests, shut up." So what should I do?Opening her mouth like Colombe and saying, "Armandier's programming confuses me." Yet she couldn't even quote Racine's poem, let alone comprehend its beauty, or open her mouth like Mama and say: "Last year's art biennale seemed to be a disappointment." She would rather have a Vermeer painting destroyed than risk her life to save her flowers and plants.Or say it like Dad: "What's special about French culture is that it's a subtle anomaly." He'd said it at sixteen previous dinners.Open your mouth like Mother Thibelle and say: "Today, in Paris, you can hardly find decent cheese." No doubt, this time, with her Auvergne merchant nature.

Whenever I think of Go... the game of territorial expansion is really wonderful.There should be phases of wars there, but they are just means of keeping their territories alive for the ultimate goal.One of the most successful aspects of the game of Go is that it demonstrates that in order to win, one must survive, and one must also allow one's opponent to survive.People who are too greedy will eventually lose their opponents: it is a delicate game of balance, gaining benefits on the one hand, but not crushing the other party on the other.At the end of the day, life and death are just the result of building well and badly.As a character in Taniguchi's works said: Your life and your death are both results.This is the motto of Go, and it is also the motto of life.

Life, death: it's just what we built.Importantly, is well built.So I made a new commandment to myself, which is, I'm going to stop breaking down, I'm going to start building.Even with Colombe, I want to turn her into a positive person.What matters in life is what we do the moment we die.This coming June 16th, I hope to die in the build. 16. The Melancholy of Cat "Constitution" The person who knocked on the door was the charming and beautiful Olympus Sannis. She was on the third floor. -Annotation of the diplomat's daughter.I adore Olympus Saint Niss.I think there must be a strong character force behind it to keep her alive despite such a ridiculous name, especially when we know that this kind of misfortune will only be a joke for others, "Ah, Olympus Si, can I climb your mountain?" Things like this continued into her adulthood.Also, Olympus Saint Nis clearly didn't want to be the kind of person her birth had entrusted her with.She neither wants to marry a rich man, nor pursue fame and wealth, nor does she want to become a diplomat, let alone have the status of a star.Olympus Saint Nice wants to be a veterinarian.

"Go to the provinces," she confided to me one day when we were talking about cats in front of the door felt. "In Paris, there are only small animals. I also want to treat cows and pigs." Unlike some of the building's residents, Olympus didn't put on airs to show she was talking to a concierge, for she was a well-bred girl from an unbiased leftist family.Olympus talks to me because I have a cat, we walk together because of shared interests, and I appreciate her disdain for society constantly putting fences in our ridiculous path.