01 PEKINGNESE

 

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02 EXPLOSION

 

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03 LAMA

 

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05 LEADER

 

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06 SECRETARY

 

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07 TORCH

 

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08 WOOL

 

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09 SMALL FLAT

 

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10 KUNG FU

 

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11 BALD HEAD

 

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12 DHARMA

 

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13 BANDIT

 

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14 GRAND SECRETARY

 

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15 GOAT

 

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16 GREAT HARMONY

 

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(…) Because Meng Huang is a great talker, he is capable of attracting people’s attention with odd, often grotesque tales, which are sometimes hilarious and autobiographical. His life seems so rich in unpredictable, amusing events as to build up a supply of endless stories.

The Chinese language becomes sparkling and flowery, often with inserts of the Henan dialect, full-bodied and well-grounded and it is a pity foreigners cannot enjoy it.

(…) The experience of landscapes, rain, sun, loneliness and encounters, of hardships and prolonged interruptions, would build up an authentic story of life, in Meng Huang’s case of ‘art’.

The vicissitudes of his life may either prevent him from fulfilling this dream, or delay it, or he may take a farther step already suggested through his statements: that “art too is just a way of living … and in any real thing we are closer to it than in the true semi-artistic professions, which while pretending to be close to art, practically deny it and prove its existence wrong.” (R. M. Rilke).Rilke too, though proclaiming the sovereignty of life, devoted himself body and soul to literature, a practice that risks being far away from art only when not supported by the need to create, by the deep knowledge of oneself and the acceptance of one’s solitude.

Monica Dematté  | Anguillara Sabazia | March 23, 2006 |
Translated by Silvana Dematté

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