Wednesday, 22 November
Light rain
This morning the Soviet newspapers reported that committee member Voroshilov Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has resigned.
In the 17th issue of Severa, it published an article recounting how Vice-Admiral Vevelska discovered the territory in the area around lower Heilongjiang when he was young and how he increased Russia’s territory. In the article it said Sakhalin originally belonged to Russia, but it did not touch on our territory. From this we can deduce the Soviet designation regarding the Far East. Probably in the future it will demand the entire Sakhalin from Japan and will not let Korea go. But perhaps at the moment it still doesn’t have any territorial ambition.
When I took a nap in the afternoon, I suddenly heard the sound of the alarm clock. When I woke up I found my room was filled with old furniture. Though I was really tired, I just tried to wake up. Suddenly I woke up again and found the clock on the table striking 4.00. I still found I was very tired, when I wanted to wake I found I was just like still in the dream. After a while when I woke up spontaneously, I found that the clock on the table was strikingt three, which showed clearly that when I previously woke up twice it was unreal. I recalled that I composed couplets when I was in the (private) school when I was a boy, my teacher raised the first sentence as “fantasy in the dream” and I answered “in a mess”. My teacher Zeng Guojing (曾國昌) thought that my answer was marvellous. Today I experienced both.