— OPEN COURT —
💿 Jane Austen – The Narrator–Smile
The Queen of World Literature, a sovereign judge of human character and hyprocrisy
🪶 Cinematic Malpractice: Misrepresenting Elizabeth Bennet’s Character in Pride & Prejudice
🪶 Truths about Vietnamese – A Sovereign Melodic Language of Lyrical Poetry
💿 Napoleon’s Island Vacation Packages
🪶 The Anatomy of a Fraud: Dismantling the Myth of Napoleon Bonaparte
💿 朱枚 (Zhu Mei): The Forsaken Soul (For Zhu Mei, the soul of the famous wuxia novels)
For Zhu Mei, woman co-founder of the Ming Bao empire (明報), who lived in poor obscurity after being betrayed for a young bride, and died of sickness in a hospital unknown to anyone.
🪶 Louis Cha (Jìnyōng / 金庸): The King of Wuxia or a Heartless Hypocrite?
🪶 Charles Dickens: An Honorable Literary Icon or a Heartless Hypocrite?
🪶 The Scarlet Letter: Literature or Monumental Moral Rot?
🎭 The Byronic Poison – Byron reduced to his true stature
🪶 The Anatomy of a False Idol: Dismantling the Myth of Lord Byron
💿 After Five Centuries, O Joan... – A Hymn-Lament
💿 Cry of the Ashes – Joan of Arc’s Mother’s Laments
🪶 The Disrespect of Joan of Arc in Karen Green’s Book
🪶 Semantically Corrupted Institutional Definitions
💿 The Fraudulent Definitions of Visual and Perfect Rhyme
💿 When Prose Becomes Queen of Poetry
💿 On Tolkien's Masterpiece Treated as Children's Fiction
💿 The Folly of Blind Echoes and Untruths
An illuminating exposure on the hollowness of herd mentality's echoes, using Sonnet 18 to demonstrate unclouded reason
🪶 Herd Mentality and Blind Worship of Sonnet 18
🎭 The Emperor's New Clothes of Unlyrical Prose Poetry
A theatrical cabaret song exposing the hollow hypocrisies of contemporary poetry trends
💿 Some Thoughts on a Friend's Confessional Poem
💿 When the World... (From Tribunal of Clarity)
🪶 Translating Kiều Faithfully: Restoring Nguyễn Du’s Voice in English
🪶 Lyrical Free Verse: Raising the Bar for Faithful Translation of Vietnamese Masterpieces
🪶 The Ultimate Principle of Faithful Translation Is Respect
🪶 Replacing ‘Free Indirect Speech’ with ‘Character‑Voice‑in‑Narration’
🪶 VT’s Poetry Talks: Lục Bát: The Vietnamese Lyrical Soul: A Complete Guide
🪶 Understanding Viet Poetry Forms in 30 Minutes (Written in Vietnamese)
🪶 Cẩm Sắt (錦瑟): An In-depth Treatise on Li Shangyin’s Most Mind-Bending, Mysterious Masterpiece (Written in Vietnamese)
🪶 Le Sanctuaire Inaltérable: La Voix et l'Intégrité de Vũ Hoàng Chương (Written in Vietnamese)
🪶 The Quality Illusion: Why Thin Premium Windows Laptops Don’t Last
🪶 The Logitech MX Ergo Paradox: Premium Price, Penny Switches, and the Trackpad Surrender