"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#
In fact, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to your 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 researching it, only asking about the effort and not the outcome. In the focus of your unknowing dedication, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as entrustment is just this. Or conversely, make earning money your only goal, spending all your time thinking about how to earn it, without questioning what to do with it once earned. At the end of your life, you might hold a pile of gold coins like Gollum and say: "Ah, how warm it is..." Therefore, the key to a wonderful life lies in what you can become obsessed with.
In fact, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to your 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 researching it, only asking about the effort and not the outcome. In the focus of your unknowing dedication, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as entrustment is just this. Or conversely, make earning money your only goal, spending all your time thinking about how to earn it, without questioning what to do with it once earned. At the end of your life, you might hold a pile of gold coins like Gollum and say: "Ah, how warm it is..." Therefore, the key to a wonderful life lies in what you can become obsessed with.
Lin Yun I#
Every leaf outside the window makes human science seem so childish and powerless.
The distant streetlights shine brightly, as if they are twinkling countless stars. The stars in the sky appear, as if they are lighting countless streetlights.” I continue to chant: “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, as if they are twinkling countless stars. The stars in the sky appear, as if they are lighting countless streetlights.” I continue to chant: “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
Vision IV#
His words calmed me a bit, 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 actor. I am always a damn weakling anyway.
His words calmed me a bit, 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 actor. I am always a damn weakling anyway.
String#
In the golden forest, two paths diverged, but unfortunately, we cannot tread both at the same time. Yet we chose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference in our lives.
In the golden forest, two paths diverged, but unfortunately, we cannot tread both at the same time. Yet we chose the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference in our lives.
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