praise of blame?

Do you mean this "of"



No. I don't think it's a typo.

I think Ori means this one, Boomer.



Ori, are you a he or a she?

I have no clue why you've asked something irrelevant.

Please pay attention to the title of the thread. I meant "praise or blame" is correct, while "praise of blame" is a typo.
Do you agree with me?

The world's affairs rush on, an endless stream;
A sky-told fate, infinite in reach, dooms all.
The kingdoms three are now the stuff of dream,
For men to ponder, past all praise or blame.
- last quatrain of denouement (Chapter 120, p. 1457)

http://poisonpie.com/words/others/somewhat/threekingdoms/text/quotes.html

http://poisonpie.com/words/others/somewhat/threekingdoms/index.html

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I'm surprised you don't know this from the original.

The original would be in Chinese, not English.

Is this not a quote from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Oristar?

I've just bought a set of Chinese-English-version Three Kingdoms in discount the day before yesterday, translated by Moss Roberts, and published by Foreign Languages Press (of China).
Good translation but with many typo there (not Moss' fault).

Thank you for replying

I stumbled onto the Three Kingdoms by accident once, about 12 years ago. I was at the library with a friend, and we were looking for information on the warring states period in 16th century Japan. I was trying to type "Sengoku" into a terminal of the library's computer, and trying to politely listen to my friend at the same time. I don't know what kind of nonsense i actually typed into the terminal, but when i looked back down, it was asking me if i meant Sun Che. I thought, what the hell, i'll check that out. From there, i learned about Sun Quan, and Liu Bei, and Cao Cao and Guan Yu--all of which lead me to The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It's great. It is, arguably, the oldest historical novel in the world.

The Kingdom Three tells us "To make good company over the wine jar,
Where many a famed event,
Provides their merriment"
We may make good company over good books, refresh ourselves up with historical wisdoms and look forward.