Wu-Xia

April 17, 2001

- To Amien Rais

If I were in your place right now, if I were at the top of one of the highest institutions in the land, I would take a break from intrigues and words. I would watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And I would return from the cinema – from those fantastic and masterly fighting scenes – thinking: it is not the fall of an enemy that eventually makes us the winner.

For what is the meaning of winning? What of losing? In

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