The author shares a screenshot from Zhihu depicting a comic from 'Slum Dawn' (Poverty-stricken Dawn), noting its dark humor and common catchphrases. The image evokes a complex emotion, reminding them of Xu Lizhi's poem 'I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron...' which reflects on industrial hardship and despair. This leads to a reflection on whether deeper life experience makes one more or less sentimental, or if people remain inherently fragile.
Dawn of the Slums
I was scrolling through Zhihu when I saw this
Just looking at this image, I froze in place for three minutes—there was a feeling I couldn't put into words. 😟
I looked it up and found it's from Dawn of the Slums. Turns out a lot of catchphrases come from this hellish manga. 😒
This author absolutely kills me. 😭
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Why
Maybe it was the painful romance of it all that reminded me of I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron… — and in an instant, the feeling broke the bottle and spilled all over the ground. We humans, we humans—after seeing so much of life, do we become more heartless, or more easily moved, or have we always been this fragile?
Xu Lizhi - PoemWiki