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During the existence of Yugoslavia, Pula, with its colossal Roman Arena, attracted many stars who were then invited to the intimate residence of Marshall Tito on Brioni Island. Sophia Loren, Elisabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Yul Brynner and Orson Welles were among them. Richard Burton even played Tito in the partisan film Sutjeska (The Battle of Sutjeska, 1973) which was directed by the Tito’s close friend Stipe Delic. I mention this because I feel it is important. In the time when Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet troops, and the Prague Spring was stamped out, and the Communist Party sharply censored any Western content, Tito invited Richard Burton to his private residence on Vanga Island and prepared big Hollywood approach film productions made in Yugoslavia. On Brioni, the guides nowadays praise Tito as a great politician and remember proudly the number of film stars who visited Pula and Brioni, compared with the communist bosses in former Czechoslovakia who are forgotten or damned.

So it was no big surprise when the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Festival in 2012 and walked inside the Arena to watch a motion picture together with the Croatian Preside

On Rage

- By Evelyn Char, translated from Chinese by Nicholas Wong

It’s been over a week since I first failed to sleep normally. My sleep has been shallow. I’ve tossed and turned in bed, alert and asleep. Or, at other times, I was simply an insomniac, almost never missing the first soft beam of sunlight shining through the curtain cracks.

My insomnia suggested that everyday life had collapsed. Other body functions had also suddenly gone mistaken. Aside from the usual health issues, my heart often beat unnaturally speedy, which made me experience that I shouldn’t procrastinate anymore. I rushed to the Chinese herbal surgeon. The wait there, as usual, was long. He observed me and felt my pulse. He asked me to stick out my tongue, put it back, and slowly stick it out again. Then, with a frown, he asked, “What have you done lately? Are you in a rage?”

I showed a forced smile and thought, what kind of question is that? Who isn’t enraged these days? In Hong Kong, we’re about to have a collective heart attack.

Back in my novel-reading days, I often encountered the term 急怒攻心 (“rapid rage seizing the heart”). Some characters would ev

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