Diary - Category - Hack it!http://xllyu.org/categories/diary/Diary - Category - Hack it!Hugo -- gohugo.ioenlyu@xllyu.org (Xinliang Lyu)lyu@xllyu.org (Xinliang Lyu)Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:34:53 +0000Summer holiday 2023 (continued)http://xllyu.org/posts/summer-holiday-2023-continued/Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:34:53 +0000Xinliang Lyuhttp://xllyu.org/posts/summer-holiday-2023-continued/This post continues talking about my summer holiday from August to September. I will talk about movies I watched and books I read.

The Brothers Karamazov

Ivan explains to Alyosha about his opinion about God in this 1968 movie

Reading Dostoevsky has always been one of my dreams since 2013, when one of my friends expressed her deep reverence to this great writer, the pioneer of modern psychology, and a great influencer of great philosophies like Nietzsche. However, Dostoevsky’s novels have a reputation for being hard to read, and I indeed got completely lost when reading his Crime and Punishment in 2014. As a result, I have been a little frightened and never dared to try reading him again for almost 10 years.

]]>Summer holiday 2023http://xllyu.org/posts/summer-holiday-2023/Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:05:31 +0000Xinliang Lyuhttp://xllyu.org/posts/summer-holiday-2023/I finally had a chance to go back to my hometown in this summer after more than three years of the pandemic. After attending one international conference on Statistical Mechanics, I flew back to Shanghai on 18 August. I spent the weekend meeting my friends in Tongji University, and then went back to my hometown on 21 August. I stayed in my parents’ place for about three weeks and returned Tokyo on 10 September.

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