《七步诗（qī bù shī）》—— 曹植

煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣。
Cooking beans on a fire kindled with bean stalks. The beans weep in the pot.
本是同根生，相煎何太急！
Originally born from the selfsame roots. Why so eager to torture each other!


【翻译】煮豆子时把豆茎当作燃料，豆子在锅中哭泣。我们本来是同胞兄弟，为什么你那么急迫地加害于我呢？

曹植 (CAO Zhi, 192 – 232) was a Chinese poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. His poetry style, greatly revered during the Jin Dynasty and Southern and Northern Dynasties, came to be known as the jian'an style.

Cao Zhi was also the son of the powerful warlord Cao Cao. Together with his elder brother Cao Pi, they were the strongest contestants for their father's position. Cao Pi eventually succeeded Cao Cao in 220 and within a year declared himself the first emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. Like many powerful families, tension among brothers was high. In his later life, Cao Zhi was not allowed to meddle in politics, despite his many petitions to seek office.

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an image of the Tabletop Grill

This ultra-portable grill is a real work of art. Constructed of porcelain and stainless steel with a wooden base, the EVA SOLO Table Grill ($172) will let you bring a little of your modern taste anywhere you want to cook a couple burgers or steaks. It has a handle for easy toting, and can be cleaned in a dish washer.



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The meaning of boiled potatoes in van Gogh's mind

The potato eaters,
Vincent van Gogh, 1885,
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

From a letter written in 1885 by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo:


"My dear Theo,
...you see, I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk, who are eating their potatoes by the light of their little lamp, have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour and — that they have thus honestly earned their food. I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ours — civilized people. So I certainly don’t want everyone just to admire it or approve of it without knowing why...

Vincent"

Rawness in Nitsch's work

the skinned and mutilated lamb and a playbill of a Nitsch's exhibition

Hermann Nitsch's work, considered both ritualistic and existential, first drew attention in the 1960s when he exhibited a skinned and mutilated lamb. The lamb was crucified against a white fabric-covered wall, with the entrails removed and displayed below a white table, splashed with blood and hot water. Nitsch's subsequent work has incorporated many similar elements, often combining slaughtered animals, red fruits, music, dancing, and active participants, with semi-religious icons such as staged crucifixions, satirizing and questioning the moral ethics. 

Currently his work is often discussed in the context of our culture's fixation with violence seen on the news, movie screens, and in popular video games.

Definitions of raw

1. uncooked, as articles of food : a raw carrot.

2. not having undergone processes of preparing, dressing, finishing, refining, or manufacture: raw  cotton.

3. unnaturally or painfully exposed, as flesh, by removal of the skin or natural integument. 
4. crude in quality or character; not tempered or refined by art or taste : 
raw humor.
5. brutally or grossly frank: a raw portrayal of human passions.

6. brutally harsh or unfair: a raw deal; receiving raw treatment from his friends.

7. disagreeably damp and chilly, as the weather or air: a raw, foggy day at the beach.

8. not diluted, as alcoholic spirits: raw whiskey.

9. unprocessed or unevaluated: raw data.