You Tong 尤侗
man of letters · playwright · Qing China · 1618–1704
Known as Hui'an. A writer and playwright of the early Qing who left several comments in Zhang Chao's Quiet Dream Shadows.
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1690s
The ancients spoke of "stealing leisure in the midst of busyness." If leisure can be stolen, then thieves too have their Way.
昔人云「忙裏偷閒」，閒而可偷，盜亦有道矣。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
1690s
It only shows that human flesh and blood are fit for flies and mosquitoes to chew. To us it is a person; to a fly or a mosquito, how is it different from anything rank and rotting!
正以人之血肉只堪供蠅蚊咀嚼耳。以我視之，人也；自蠅蚊視之，何異腥膻臭腐乎！A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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