The tone of this passage and the tone of “the adventure of the mysterious picture” both show a) the confused plans of the narrator. b) an unhinged inner psychological state. c) the triumph of reason over the irrational. d) despair in the face of a challenge.

The tone of this passage and the tone of “The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture” both show an unhinged inner psychological state. The narrator was mentally derange because of the intense agony and cruelty as seen in the mysterious picture. Moreover, the presence of unbalance perception of its surroundings evokes fear, which reflects narrator's inner psychological state.

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun

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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.