:41:00
Please be straightforward,
I won't get upset.
:41:03
Of course you will, or else
you wouldn't have said that.
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But I think it's my duty
to tell you my opinion.
:41:11
Look, it's one-dimensional.
:41:15
These kinds of sentences
have an expiration date.
:41:18
For example,
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"The children of tomorrow will read
your name Red."
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What is the meaning of Red?
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Does it mean left? Martyrdom?
What does it really mean?
:41:32
These are slogans.
They are good for a day or two.
:41:35
...and after that they're good
for the archives of history.
:41:38
Of course, writing slogans is important too,
but it's not a work of art.
:41:46
A work of art should be permanent.
:41:48
Thank you very much!
Please give me back my writings.
:41:51
-I have to go.
-Wait! Sit down.
:41:54
You just told me a few minutes ago
that you and your friends...
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...practice critiquing yourselves and others.
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Is this all you're capable of?
:42:02
If you want to be a writer or a poet,
you have to accept criticism.
:42:08
Maybe I didn't make myself clear.
:42:12
There was a writer who is
one of your friends.
:42:15
When he wanted to say,
:42:17
"The man asked the woman
to give him the ashtray", he would say,
:42:22
"That man who was bent over
by the cruelty of history's tyrants,
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...asked that woman who was
called weak all her life,
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...to give him the ashtray that was
the product of the mass's hard labour.
:42:41
You see how ridiculous it sounds?
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But a lot of my poetry has been published
by the official branch of the organization.
:42:46
...and it has many readers.
-What do you expect me to do?
:42:49
Give you a round of applause?
:42:52
In your poems, you have written things that,
they, as a political organization, need.
:42:57
So, basically you object to struggle?