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尘埃篇 Dust
致钱钟书
少来轻躁易默存，文优昆仑震京华。
青出蓝而恃才傲，晚来作序致旧话。
简居拙室匆然书，断拒名禄把心清。
人谓其狂实为狷，一抔黄土敬世情。
To Qian Zhongshu
Hypomanic personality caused to be changed name into “silence”.
Articles writing superior to the ordinary astonished in Peking.
Blue extracted from the indigo plant but is bluer in cockiness.
Preface in old age referred to the behavior was self-mocking.
Living plainly in a simple room to write as swift as the wind,
resolutely refused fame and riches without other intentions.
He was regarded as haughty but, actually, impatient straightforward.
The oversimplified funeral with a handful of soil shows earnestness.
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