Mirror of Words
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What is home? Where is home? Is home a physical place, a familiar face, a sense of collectiveness, or a fluid, changeable concept? What triggers the change? What is the unchangeable beneath the change?
A row of books received from different times periods lay out the story. The earliest copy is Chian Chen’s Water Asks 簡媜《水問》, given by my junior high school Mandarin teacher at the age of thirteen. Sanmao’s Gone with the Rainy Season 三毛《雨季不再來》, Eileen Chang’s translation of The Old Man and the Sea 張愛玲《老人與海》and a copy of El Alquimista were given by my mother during high school. Too Loud a Solitude and One Hundred Years of Solitude were borrowed from friends, A Diary to You as well as Surprised by Joy were received as graduation gifts from university friends. The Little Prince, The Graveyard Book, Alice in Wonderland, and The Neverending Story are collections of personal interest; Virgil’s Georgics and Dante’s Inferno were learned from school.
Last edit, 2026.
A row of books received from different times periods lay out the story. The earliest copy is Chian Chen’s Water Asks 簡媜《水問》, given by my junior high school Mandarin teacher at the age of thirteen. Sanmao’s Gone with the Rainy Season 三毛《雨季不再來》, Eileen Chang’s translation of The Old Man and the Sea 張愛玲《老人與海》and a copy of El Alquimista were given by my mother during high school. Too Loud a Solitude and One Hundred Years of Solitude were borrowed from friends, A Diary to You as well as Surprised by Joy were received as graduation gifts from university friends. The Little Prince, The Graveyard Book, Alice in Wonderland, and The Neverending Story are collections of personal interest; Virgil’s Georgics and Dante’s Inferno were learned from school.
Last edit, 2026.
Selected Bibliography
Aligheri, Dante. The Inferno. Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander, 1st ed., AnchorBooks, 2002.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art. Cornwall: Blackwell, 1996: 67.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Erythraean Sibyl. 1509, Sistine Chapel.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Latin-English Bilingual Edition. Edited by Johan Winge. Translated by Clive Harcourt
Garruthers, LightningSource, 2018.
Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story. London: Penguin Books. 1997.
Exupery, Antoine de Saint. The Little Prince. Translated by Ros Schwartz and Chloe Schwartz, Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016.
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book, 1st ed., HarperCollins, 2010.
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique. La Source. 1820, Musee d'Orsay.
Lewis, CS. Surprised by Joy. London: HarperCollins. 2012.
Rodin, Auguste. Le Penseur. 1903, Musee Rodin.
The Color of Pomegranates. Dir. Sergei Parajanov. Perf. Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, and Giorgi Gegechkori. 1969.
Tufnell, Miranda, and Chris Crickmay. Body Space Image Notes towards Improvisation and Performance. London: Virago Press, 2000: 73.
Virgil, Georgics. Translated by Janet Lembke, Yale UP: 2005.
簡媜《水問》, 臺北: 洪範書店 2003
三毛《雨季不再來》, 臺北: 皇冠叢書 1991
赫拉巴爾《過於喧囂的孤獨》, 臺北: 大塊文化 2002
保羅科爾賀《牧羊少年的奇幻之旅》, 臺北: 時報出版 2004
海明威《老人與海》,張愛玲譯,臺北: 台灣英文雜誌社有限公司 1988
馬奎斯《百年孤独》,南海出版公司 2011
鍾文音《寫給你的日記》,臺北: 大田出版社 1999
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Rules of Art. Cornwall: Blackwell, 1996: 67.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo. Erythraean Sibyl. 1509, Sistine Chapel.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Latin-English Bilingual Edition. Edited by Johan Winge. Translated by Clive Harcourt
Garruthers, LightningSource, 2018.
Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story. London: Penguin Books. 1997.
Exupery, Antoine de Saint. The Little Prince. Translated by Ros Schwartz and Chloe Schwartz, Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016.
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book, 1st ed., HarperCollins, 2010.
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique. La Source. 1820, Musee d'Orsay.
Lewis, CS. Surprised by Joy. London: HarperCollins. 2012.
Rodin, Auguste. Le Penseur. 1903, Musee Rodin.
The Color of Pomegranates. Dir. Sergei Parajanov. Perf. Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, and Giorgi Gegechkori. 1969.
Tufnell, Miranda, and Chris Crickmay. Body Space Image Notes towards Improvisation and Performance. London: Virago Press, 2000: 73.
Virgil, Georgics. Translated by Janet Lembke, Yale UP: 2005.
簡媜《水問》, 臺北: 洪範書店 2003
三毛《雨季不再來》, 臺北: 皇冠叢書 1991
赫拉巴爾《過於喧囂的孤獨》, 臺北: 大塊文化 2002
保羅科爾賀《牧羊少年的奇幻之旅》, 臺北: 時報出版 2004
海明威《老人與海》,張愛玲譯,臺北: 台灣英文雜誌社有限公司 1988
馬奎斯《百年孤独》,南海出版公司 2011
鍾文音《寫給你的日記》,臺北: 大田出版社 1999