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I'm Fei Huang. This is where my essays, moments, and work live. New writing goes out on Substack first; a few come home here.

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  • Why We Read Kant

    Kant stands as the most profound thinker I have ever encountered. His Groundwork of the Metaphysics...

  • Rereading The Brothers Karamazov

    I recently listened to The Brothers Karamazov as an audiobook. Back in the day during the Zhengzhou...

  • Active Love: Grounded as a Mountain

    Lately I have been pressing the idea of active love. But when it comes down to practice, how do we actually live it out? Many readers find the farming arc of *Vagabond* tedious, but the more I return to it, the more I am convinced it is the soul of the whole work...

  • IKIRU

    I’ve heard about this Kurosawa film for a long time, and I finally watched it recently. Encounters...

  • Dumbledore's Woolen Socks

    Every now and then I think of Dumbledore's woolen socks. When Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw in...

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