Nick Williams

[Nick Williams @quasiphantasmal]

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[Nick Williams @quasiphantasmal]

Online book talk for my new study of the Tianwen 天問 (Heavenly Questions) at Harvard University Asia Center

[Nick Williams @quasiphantasmal]

The moon bright on the watchet ocean, the pearls shed tears;
The sunlight warm over Lantian, its jade gives rise to mist.
This feeling could be grasped and transformed into memory—
Yet even at the time it was already disconcertingly
unsure.

[Nick Williams @quasiphantasmal]

Li Shangyin's great poem Jinse 錦瑟:
The emblazoned zither, inexplicably, has fifty
strings;
With each string and each fret I recall the splendid years.
Master Zhuang dreamt at dawn he was a butterfly astray;
King Wang’s springlike passion was imbued in the cuckoo.

[A X Douglas @alexxdouglas]

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[Edward W. @edwardW2]

I have memorised the heart sutra, a short buddhist text of 260 chinese characters.

I once had a dream where I was (essentially) being pursued by someone. I was in great fear, and so I chanted the entire Heart Sutra in the dream.

[Nick Williams @quasiphantasmal]

@behrwolf @HarvardYenching @HarvardAsia Thanks, Wolfgang! You played an important role in the formation of this book...

[Harvard-Yenching Institute @HarvardYenching]

"Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” across Two Millennia," by Nicholas Morrow Williams, was recently published by @HarvardAsia, as part of the HYI Monograph Series: https://t.co/le9tJVwjuv