[1] 英文版
i'm no li bai, but when it comes to poetry i know what i like, and that's what i know. some things are inalienably true: water is wet, grass is green (kind of), dogs bark and houses prices rise.
the line yang wang xing kong ("look up at the starry sky") is one of my favorites. why? because it's true. look at the sky. what do you see? that's right. stars.
it's very important we all gaze at the skies and don't look around us. look! big apartment, high-earning job, ktv booked round the clock, two cars with different license plates and, of course, a hot wife (everyone wants a hot wife. even my girlfriend, just for the marvelous face it gives).
if we all do this, we drive up national productivity and everybody's happy, except the peasants. but it's crucial to remember the other half. not the peasants. the earth.
reach for the sky was a famous book by a wh