Reading The Story of the Stone, vol.2: The Crab-Flower Club | Alexandria
Read The Story of the Stone, vol.2: The Crab-Flower Club by Cao Xueqin. Revealing how a 2,700-page Chinese novel explores desire's ultimate futility, The Crab-Flower Club exposes life's impermanence through a wealthy family's decline. Its boldest claim? That attachments themselves - even to wisdom and virtue - become prisons. This paradox still haunts: pursuing meaning may doom us to miss it entirely.