Extra 40 points if answered well and (correct)

which sentence from the essay best conveys the central idea of "life without go go boots"?

the rest of my life would be endurable if i had a pair of those white, calf-high confections with little black heels

i learned what my mother had been trying to tell me all along: high fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

style is mostly a matter of acting as if you know very well what you look like, , and are just delighted about it

i have a feeling the day might come when my daughter will beg to be a slave of conventional fashion. w

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.