Five Spice Street

Okay. Let’s look at how X implemented her ‘‘normalization’’! Is normalization the same as legalization? First, we can dismiss this possibility, because the relationship between her and him definitely cannot be legalized. Never! So, how did she ‘‘normalize’’? Did she jump out from that dark granary to the main road and have sex in broad daylight? Did she force her way into Old Meng’s loft and live openly with an adulterer? Neither solution would work. We are ‘‘waiting’’! This ‘‘waiting’’ isn’t something we can easily deal with. X and Q had learned lessons from it in the past. We should consider X’s pronouncement a kind of overstated exhibitionism. According to Dr. A’s theory, a woman is simply a woman. How much difference could she make? She may have overcome Q (perhaps in fact Q overcame her), but that didn’t mean that she could overcome all of our elites. She may perform her ‘‘normalization’’ in midair: she’s certainly welcome to try; she just shouldn’t make a clamor. C took her hen-like cackle as a stage of sexual joy. Fuck! We’d rather cut off our tongues than accept this. She might have taken advantage of C’s foolishness and performed her joyful activities in dark places at first and then moved to the open street. Does that mean that we elites have to stand on the same side with her? Fuck! If she allied herself with C and put together a mighty battle array and then forced her way into Old Meng’s loft, would our elites have to retreat to avoid a conflict, or would they flee at the sight of the oncoming force? Fuck! As we see it, there’s something wrong with X’s mind. She must think that she and Q had become invincible to dare to make such an uproar on the street. Otherwise, why did she previously have to hide? Otherwise, why was it that no one had located the granary, which so far existed only as a hypothesis? Analysis of her past behavior showed that X did have this weakness. She would become overconfident and intoxicated too soon, unaware that fierce battles awaited her. Really, now an excess of self-confidence would cause her defeat. Even if she were smarter than others and had the ability to plan and perform, this self-confidence-so distant from reality- would ruin everything she had imagined.

I ask you, if a person wasn’t a lunatic and possessed common sense, would she have the guts to announce publicly that she wanted to ‘‘normalize’’ a relationship with an adulterous lover? Absurd! As a matter of boasting, it’s probably okay, but she said it with an unusually serious and frightening expression to passersby who had nothing to do with it! I hate it, hate it, hate it! Let her go to the North Pole to normalize her relationship! Let her go to some doghouse to normalize her relationship! Just don’t do it on our Five Spice Street. We don’t approve of this kind of ‘‘normalization.’’ Sooner or later we would expunge this man and this woman’s existence from the stenographer’s historical records and never mention their ‘‘normalization’’ again. If C is right and her mind is normal, wouldn’t all our elites, as well as ordinary people, be lunatics? This C was the source of evil: he ruined everything. With his above-average petty trick, he had almost reversed the wheels of history. Luckily we had the insight to refute his argument swiftly. What a great danger we averted! But for this, these three might have forced themselves into Old Meng’s loft when no one was watching and made it their beachhead. It would have been a thorn in the flesh of the people of Five Spice Street and would have remained an iron reality! Then the stenographer would have had to record this damn thing in his notebook! The optimists might think that even if the plot were realized, it would have been only temporary: in the end, they would have been swept into the dustbin of history. This is wrong. What is most frightening? A latent virus. For example, C had been lying low for eight years or maybe twelve and eventually created this major uproar. After eight or twelve years, what kind of unbearable situation would result from these three viruses lying low in Old Meng’s loft? Friends, you must never be off guard, you must never be careless when seriously discussing theoretical questions. Let us continue to be acutely aware of reality. Let us strictly prevent viruses from invading! This time, X unscrupulously announced that she would ‘‘normalize.’’ Next time, life-and-death warfare may befall us! In general, though, there won’t be any warfare, because she will completely fall apart: how is she qualified to battle with us? Ha!

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