| Provincial Graduate Wang meets...: |
「This is certainly a joke,」 said Wang Hui with a short laugh. 「On the first day of this year I dreamed that I was looking at the list of metropolitan examination results. My name was on it — that goes without saying. But the third name was that of another man from Wenshang County called Xun Mei, and I wondered at this, since there was no provincial scholar from my county called Xun. Fancy it's turning out to be this little student's name! As if I could be on the same list as he!」 He burst out laughing, then went on, 「It's obvious that dreams are unreliable. Fame and achievement depend upon study, not upon any supernatural forces.」 |
