"The Three-Body Problem Prequel: Ball Lightning" Reading Notes#
Author: Liu Cixin
Reading Duration: 4 hours
These are the notes and excerpts I recorded while reading "The Three-Body Problem Prequel: Ball Lightning" on WeChat Reading.
Prelude#
Actually, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to dad: choose a universally recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical problem that can be solved with just a piece of paper and a pencil, like the Goldbach Conjecture or Fermat's Last Theorem, or even a purely philosophical problem that doesn't require paper or pencil, like the origin of the universe. Devote yourself entirely to it, only focusing on the effort and not the outcome. In the process of unknowing concentration, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as entrustment is just this. Or conversely, make earning money your only goal, spend all your time thinking about how to earn, without questioning what to do with the earnings. By the time you die, you might be like Grelot, holding a pile of gold coins and saying: Ah, how warm it is... So, the key to a wonderful life lies in what you can become obsessed with.
Actually, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to dad: choose a universally recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical problem that can be solved with just a piece of paper and a pencil, like the Goldbach Conjecture or Fermat's Last Theorem, or even a purely philosophical problem that doesn't require paper or pencil, like the origin of the universe. Devote yourself entirely to it, only focusing on the effort and not the outcome. In the process of unknowing concentration, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as entrustment is just this. Or conversely, make earning money your only goal, spend all your time thinking about how to earn, without questioning what to do with the earnings. By the time you die, you might be like Grelot, holding a pile of gold coins and saying: Ah, how warm it is... So, the key to a wonderful life lies in what you can become obsessed with.
Lin Yun's First#
Every leaf outside the window makes human science seem so childish and powerless.
The distant streetlights shine brightly, like countless stars twinkling. The stars in the sky appear, as if lighting up countless streetlights.” I continue to recite: “I think in that ethereal sky, there must be beautiful markets. The items displayed in the markets must be rare treasures that do not exist in the world.
Every leaf outside the window makes human science seem so childish and powerless.
The distant streetlights shine brightly, like countless stars twinkling. The stars in the sky appear, as if lighting up countless streetlights.” I continue to recite: “I think in that ethereal sky, there must be beautiful markets. The items displayed in the markets must be rare treasures that do not exist in the world.
Zhang Bin#
The entrance to science is the entrance to hell. — Marx
The entrance to science is the entrance to hell. — Marx
Anomaly Four#
His words calmed me somewhat, like a child grasping an adult's hand in the terrifying darkness, like a drowning person finally reaching solid ground. But this feeling immediately made me feel frustrated. In front of Ding Yi, I am a weak thinker; in front of Lin Yun, I am a weak doer. I am always, damn it, a weak person.
His words calmed me somewhat, like a child grasping an adult's hand in the terrifying darkness, like a drowning person finally reaching solid ground. But this feeling immediately made me feel frustrated. In front of Ding Yi, I am a weak thinker; in front of Lin Yun, I am a weak doer. I am always, damn it, a weak person.
String#
In the golden-yellow woods, two paths diverged. Unfortunately, we cannot tread both at once, but we chose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference in our lives.
In the golden-yellow woods, two paths diverged. Unfortunately, we cannot tread both at once, but we chose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference in our lives.
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