12/12/2004

Jimmy: separate ways (1)

Who's Jimmy? He is a famous animator in taiwan. i love almost all his books and have a collection of all of them. strange that i cannot find anything about him in english website on internet. anyways for more information about him check this Jimmy offical website out. i cannot find any english version of jimmy's books in internet here also though there are a lot in both traditional and simplified chinese...

just try to translate some of them here to share these beautiful and shining pictures, sentences, stories here.
Separate Ways is also known as Left and Right.

They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still.


that winter was dreadfully cold.
the whole city was covered with the dank and chilly rain...
the sky is grey, without even a beam of the sunlight
so depressing, so gloomy,
the streets are weeping.

In the same apartment:

she lives alone in one apartment. this is an old apartment building located in the outskirts. she always gets used to turning left first whenever she goes out and wherever she goes.

he lives alone in one apartment. this is an old apartment building located in the outskirts. he always gets used to turning right first whenever he goes out and wherever he goes.

everyone in this city--the forest of concrete building never bothers knowing about their neighbors.

he never meets her; she never knows him.



to be continued

Comments

I believe there is english version of Jimmy's book, on "Turn Left, Turn Right". I saw it on sale in Hong Kong. At the Page One Bookstore.

I am looking for english materials on his book as well, especially on the web. If you find some, do notify me. Thanks!

Posted by: learnedfriend | 12/12/2004

hey learnedfriend. i believe there should be the english version but just cannot find any so far. but i really love this book "separate ways" . i have both traditional and simplified versions of it.

anyways here i am trying to translate it by myself and by my understanding and interpretation:) thanx for your comments.

Posted by: icyflame | 12/12/2004

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