#ReadingTheStone S2 Episode 3: On Tragedy, Failure, and Creativity - and Daiyu, of course

In last week's episode we agreed that the last 40 "Story of the Stone" chapters were giving final season wrap-up-all-the-loose-threads vibes, but perhaps our #ReadingTheStone chats now do that too. We circled back to the topic of one of our first conversations - on failure as generative of creativity, a theme that begins this novel and also structures a particular ethos of reading the text. Discussion of Chapters 86-90 ranged today from the impending doom of Baoyu's marriage, the "impossibili...