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I find that he is not just some hedonistic druggie, as the Saul Durand Netflix version of this character depicts him to be, at least not later in life. I am surprised, upon reading this book again, to notice a period in Chinese history mentioned by him to Cheng Xin and AA, about La période des Printemps et Automnes (The Springs and Falls period of history just after The Warring States??, during which there appeared to have been many different philosophical schools of thought... Could someone educated in China please add to this?) as he wonders how human history might have been different had those many schools of thought continued, during the decentralized political climate. It reminds me of The Convivencia, in Al Andalus, and I wonder if this is a more general human trend. I tend to think that the trend in human history is toward centralization, and looking at the European Union, wonder if Human Rights can also be protected more by centralized governments, while he seems to suggest the opposite.

(I'm going back to the French version of Death's End, as I find my library's English copy of this book to be a terrible translation, and it also lacks most of the footnotes of the French version...)

(Being a bit vague to avoid spoiling ...) If the Chancelor ordered cultural and literary elements of human contact to be strictly prohibited, as we see at the sentencing of the Listening Post attendant, then how do the stories get to be well known to the people of Trisolaris?

Hi, I'm writing a historical fiction scene in which the protagonist is locked into a room, upstairs, in a house used as a Tavern (so she, the unreliable narrator, believes), and she wants to silently send smoke signals to a friend outside. Will wetting a large blanket and tossing it on the fire, then pulling it off, several times as the blanket smolders be enough to work credibly?

Nia,

(fka Shira, or ShiraDest )