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= And That's That =

[And That's That]

[Epigraph]

In this half year I have again seen much blood and many tears,
yet all I have are merely miscellaneous jottings.

The tears wiped away, the blood gone;
the butchers roam free, ever free,
those with steel blades, those with soft knives.
Yet all I have are merely 'miscellaneous jottings.'

When even the 'miscellaneous jottings' were 'put where they belong,'
all I had left was 'and that's that' - and that's that!

The eight lines above were written on the night of October 14, 1926, at the end of the collection completed up to that date. I now take them as the epigraph for the 1927 collection. October 30, 1928, Lu Xun, noted upon completion of proofreading.

[Epigraph]

In this half year I have again seen much blood and many tears,
yet all I have are merely miscellaneous jottings.

The tears wiped away, the blood gone;
the butchers roam free, ever free,
those with steel blades, those with soft knives.
Yet all I have are merely 'miscellaneous jottings.'

When even the 'miscellaneous jottings' were 'put where they belong,'
all I had left was 'and that's that' - and that's that!

The eight lines above were written on the night of October 14, 1926. I now take them as the epigraph for the 1927 collection. October 30, 1928, Lu Xun.

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