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[1] haven't read this one yet myself, but the old cartoon "Havoc in Heaven" was good, and books are usually better than their movies.The Bourgeois Gentleman Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir :-) Emma Essays Gulliver's Travels HMS Pinafore In Praise of Folly Journey to the West[1] Mullah Nasruddin stories[2] Nicomachean Ethics Panchatantra Uncle Remus War & Peace[3][2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin , collections are probably available under multiple titles
[3] much more in the book than the movie. it also looks like I should queue up Eugene Onegin.
- I must be tone-deaf, because I picked up none of the sinister overtones that other commenters on this thread are detecting. The text I read was amusing and delightful, and I associate it with a genre of writing that takes a bit of common wisdom (studying abroad is good for you) and inverts it. It reminded me of Erasmus's In Praise of Folly. I am sadly ignorant of Chinese literature, but I think the theme is universal. Looking at the world when you are standing on your head is simultaneously amusing and insightful.
