Slant Truth

Slant is just stuff that not tilted, not straight.  So, you may ask, what is slant truth? This is a very very mystifying subject of discussion. It usually takes a semester of college course to understand this but I will make it painlessly short (This is quite some serious lies ...). Slant truth is a truth that is not straight (evidently). That is, to not tell the truth directly. BEWARE, this is not lies. Its more like not telling the entire truth. Much like peeling an onion, you do it layer by layer, revealing a bit at each time. On many, I mean many many many occasions, truth are painful.  It hurts. But it is always advised to do it slowly and split up the pain. Think about jumping from Taipei 101, it hurts less if u have a slide that allow you to slide all the way down than free falling all the way down. For my sense, I agree with that slant truth idea. Slant truth is really awesome! You get to NOT lie and hide the motive. AH HA, you get to LIE but not LIE. Doesn't that sounds awesome?

Pessimism

Alright, Emily Dickinson is wierd. She holds this unreasonable sad point of view to the world. She is always toying with topics of grand sadness, death, loneliness... It is utterly irrational. Personally, I believe she has NO right, absolutely NO right to publish or share her opinion about society and all other relation crap because she is a recluse. HOW and WHY should anyone in the society admire and get educated by a recluse? WHY!!!Its not like society forced her to exile or anything, she chose to be a recluse herself (wierdo, just saying ). On a more serious note, she wrote stuff in a really emotionally distorted way, but those at basis are still what she experienced, isolation, loneliness and death (of her friends).  Comparing to the Handmaid's tale, Ms. Atwood is very imaginative (and umm...lets keep that as sexually active). Atwood is more like eager to get oppressed or something, because female are enjoying a greater advantage in modern society than males!!! I don't know and do not want to know in depth what Atwood gone through.

Spec or Scifi?

Definitely Speculative fiction. There is no laser shot guns, no plasma railguns, no void dimension projector, no super lightspeed jets. There is no any cool tech. gadgets in the story. THIS IS A FAILING SCIFI (if it is intended so..) This is more like a story of the present that exists in a parallel universe. Honestly, this novel is a bit too pessimistic. How can US fall into some stupid state of destruction and take over by theologists...How can the rest of the world fall...At least not Taiwan...there is me here!!! (I am just trying to be stupid here...) How cliche can it be to put spies in communities? You use satellites! You hack into everyone's webcam! You use everyone's cellphone to project sonar and monitor everyone!! (stole it from Dark Knight) Basically, it is an epic fail Science fiction. However, since we don't really want to fail any books (maybe because we want to encourage more authors), we put it into the speculative fiction category.

The Soul

If I were to write this entry 6 month ago, I am pretty sure I would say logic. However, I confidently say it is the subconscious part of logic, commonly known as emotions, that decides who becomes your friend. It is not entirely imagination when the spark between eye contacts shows in some stupid TV shows. Sometimes, when u see someone, he or she just give you the feeling(sparks??) that you two should be friends. Its not about the appearance, its about the attitude, the feeling that he may be a good companion along the way.  You may see some common interest between you two. The punks would like to hang out with people sharing the same tattoo taste, similar hard rock music taste.  The nerds hang out with people with glasses and speak 1s and 0s. Its always like that. The likes attract likes. The real part about friends and a well maintained relationship, is not one where one is benefiting from another. They just stick together without any logical explanation or in a more direct way, thinking about how to "use" or "manipulate" the other.

Real or Romantic

Walt Whitman, a surely old, odd guy, wrote about US in a really fashionably and unreasonably content tone. He talked about how cool and awesome (not...) the laborers are when they are doing their job (absolutely painful and nothing to be happy about) in his I hear America Singing. He never talk about the real feeling and all the pain. I doubt everytime fisherman goes out fishes a lot of fish upon return. In capitalist country, it is all about money. And all those cool guys he mentioned , the laborers, sucked at earning money. They work super hard and get super less. Like if any one would be happy for that. And then the real happy guys are the rich brain people, like Benjamin Franklin or something. They get fat and do nothing and get hell lot of money in their pockets. People get fired often. They worry, they frown, they don't smile. That is the truth, and Walt Whitman is A LIAR!! And now? still, laborers don't really laugh. They only do that in the commercial Ba-Li-Da B or something like that. It is stupid. And also, the rich people, business people in suits that sits in air conditioning rooms, are the people with money flooding into their pockets. No laborers are THAT happy, walt whitman....

Work Song

The song is more like an anthem of some communist or dictatorial country. In United States, the country and government encourages acts in promoting the unique part of their identity. However, this is more like a description of a glorious world where everyone act in a joyful manner.  All of them are working for the great happiness. It is really similar to the idea of communist where everyone work for the sake of work, not for themselves. If this song were to be written for the modern United States of America, it would have much less passion. It would be computer programmers, Wall Street financial experts, NBA basketball players and careers like that. There is less the feeling of union as time progresses and United States evolved. As for Taiwan, a country that blindly follow the footstep of the USA, has basically the same trend, except instead of NBA, we have people selling gum at the train station and other kind of traditional food. However, this kind of song still holds for modern china, parts of china where there is ship-making industry. The joyful attitude is unrealistic but idealistic in their society, which bases on a better motive than us capitalist, common welfare over selfish prosperity.

Ode

I really don't know what to write now. I chose to write an ode to SAT. well, it is intended to be sarcastic, as SAT is, in real life,  the mutual and mortal enemy of high school students. So far, I get that it is evil, and nasty. It is really difficult, for most of us....genius excluded. It has 10 sections and usually 1 is experimental section. There are 3 categories, math, reading, writing. Each of them have 3 sections. It takes 4 hours to finish the test. It takes several months to prepare for the test. It is a really time consuming test.  It is also super important. It is really like the ticket and gate to college. Without SAT, we can't go to college (good ones i mean...). SAT is the acronym for Scholastic Assessment Tests or Scholastic Aptitude Test.  It is designed by collegeboard, an evil corporation that have a whole gang of teachers thinking about questions that can ruin a student's future.  And there is ETS, Educational Testing Service, another group that distribute this evil product into the market and made every student suffer. Basically, this is an extreme evilness of educational world. I plan to write it in a sarcastic manner. This might change but I think this is the overall idea.