Why should I choose this phrase?
To begin with, it is the pen-name I actually plan to use in case I have to write anything outside medicine.
No, I'm not primarily referring to rhododendron (杜鵑花), the flower, which certainly has a special meaning to graduates of my university - it is the symbol of examination. (I decided to use this name long before I took up the arrangement of examination in 1996.)
It is cuckoo (杜鵑鳥), the bird, that is in my mind.
To begin with, it is the pen-name I actually plan to use in case I have to write anything outside medicine.
No, I'm not primarily referring to rhododendron (杜鵑花), the flower, which certainly has a special meaning to graduates of my university - it is the symbol of examination. (I decided to use this name long before I took up the arrangement of examination in 1996.)
It is cuckoo (杜鵑鳥), the bird, that is in my mind.
杜鵑，望帝春心所托。
Go read Li Shangyin (李商隱).
PS. I come to realize some years later that Kafka, in Czech, means western jackdaw (寒鴉).
What an honor to be in the same class.
PS. I come to realize some years later that Kafka, in Czech, means western jackdaw (寒鴉).
What an honor to be in the same class.
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