Mar 15
More Inspiration
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Mandarin
We’re trying to get back on track with our weekly features. Now that Issue #4 is online, we should have more time to focus on other aspects of the literary journal.
This week we hope our Mandarin Monday post will inspire us to come up with more short weekly lessons for our readers.
Our Mandarin word for the day is:
Muse: 希腊神话 xīlàshénhuà (in relation to the Greek myth)
Muse: 灵感 línggǎn (in relation to sudden inspiration)
I lost my muse and have writer’s block.
我失去了我的灵感，思路完全受阻。(wǒ shīqùle wǒde línggǎn, sīlù wánquán shòuzǔ.)
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Monday, March 15 10:55 pm
Thank you. That’s a handy word and a handy phrase alright. (I wish for more inspiration and less block.) But here’s the Question-of-the-Day: The West has a long muse-related artistic culture, and thus we have been given a certain view of inspiration, largely Greek. I now realise this is a subject for a doctoral thesis, sorry — but how do you think “cultural differences” play on this one? Is local inspiration merely intuition? Does the muse here pick her nose?
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