there are so many things like this in Chinese history it’s incredible
what’s even better is most of them no longer exist, so the only thing we know about them is from other people’s descriptions of them, which only makes them more Borgesian
But honestly it’s probably the other way around.
edit: I’m thinking of continuing this random translation snippet thing on a blog, but I don’t really know where I should put it. Ideally I want to spend as little time as possible fiddling around with the tech and aesthetics and just dump text in a way that doesn’t look ugly. Is tumblr still the blogging platform with the best effort/result ratio out there?