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lnhammer ([personal profile] lnhammer) wrote 2022-09-09 10:11 pm (UTC)

This seems to happen a lot with Bai Juyi -- clear and vivid details building a dramatic structure that resolves with bathetic patness.

It gives me low-level wonder that Song of Lasting Regret didn't teeter over in bathos and low-level anxiety about finally getting to Song of the Pipa.

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