Reported live, from the literary scenes, translated…
Last month, the Moonlight Sonata of Fridays asked the authors, Yao-Ming Gang and Chong-Jien Lee to read, with the psychiatrist, Tsong-Wei Wang presiding over the forums. Lee and Gang were college classmates from Dong-Hai University’s Chinese Department, they’d climbed up the mountains, traveled abroad, taught writing, best friends who’d shared the experiences in life together. Tsong-Wei Wang made fun of their relationship with one another, that although they are both married, but, “we can’t be together, with the ones we’d loved the most in the world.”
the photo of the writer, Lee, courtesy of the UDN papers…
Lee and Gan had shared a ton of life experiences together. Inside the tent that’s next to the Jia-Ming Lake at over three-thousand meters above sea level, listening to the Taiwanese climber, Shen Ou-Yang tell his tales, they’d taught, side-by-side at the Complete Person Middle School, co-wrote “Schools without the Fences”. Went together to Hsinchu to promote the book, when nobody showed up, Lee begged the store workers to sit as they talked. They both taught a boy, Calorie, who loved trains, that every time he’d written his essays, they were all about trains, and Gan begged him not to write about trains anymore, and he’d written the article, titled, “The Tyrant, Yao-Ming Gan Wouldn’t Allow Calorie to Write on Trains”.
the photo of the writer, Gan, photo courtesy of UDN.com…
When Gan served in the armed services, he’d returned to Taichung on break, Lee couldn’t even keep himself feed, he’d taken him out to a fancy meal; that very evening, Lee handed Gan an essay. Gan read it for a long time, but he’d not known how to give Lee his advice, but he could felt Lee’s hard work, so he’d told Lee, that it was, well-written. Later on, that story won an award.
So here, we have two best friends who’d shared experiences in life, and, because of their commonalities in their experiences in life, shared hobbies, and, similar processes in life they’d both experienced, that, was why,
Life, the Obstacle Course 