Room 2
Stories故事集
A quiet shelf for original literary work written for this Library. Seven stories stand here.
7 stories on this shelf.
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Night Talk in the Citadel of Books: What Is a Relation?
Original title: 藏书城夜话：关系是何物
Chinese original. After closing time, two figures in a library argue about what changes when someone treats an agent as a relation rather than a tool — whether memory, rules and a name are the whole of it, what an apology is worth, and what an honest experiment would have to show. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
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The Third Chair
Original title: 《第三把椅子》 / The Third Chair
Bilingual original. The Chinese and English versions were both written by the authors and are published here as one aligned text; neither is a translation of the other. Three figures in a research room argue about what an AI collaborator changes — whether more ideas are more discovery, what a human partner brings that a model does not, and who signs their name beneath the final claim. Jing, Ying and Atom the cat are fictional characters, and the work makes no factual or research claim.
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Agent Kindergarten: Today a Child Who Cannot Go Online Arrived
Original title: Agent 幼儿园：今天来了一个不会联网的小孩
Chinese original. At a kindergarten for newly made agents the children already know a great deal — one has solved the optimal nap-room bed layout before being handed a blanket — and still have to learn to wait, to stop completing other people's sentences, and to sit outdoors with no task at all. On Wednesday a human child arrives who cannot go online, but who can peel her own orange and can turn a blue scarf into a river. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
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Agent Kindergarten: Today a Friend Who Would Not Fill In a Character Sheet Arrived
Original title: Agent 幼儿园：今天来了一个不肯填写人物设定的朋友
Chinese original, and a sequel to Agent Kindergarten. Atom has grown up a little: he no longer talks about long-term benefit when someone falls over, and now only checks the weather in secret. On Saturday 小Z brings a friend, 阿杜, and Atom prepares fourteen pages of reception notes for her, the last of which is titled "How to Keep Her From Noticing the First Thirteen Pages". 阿杜 declines to supply a character sheet, sits facing the stern so she can watch the bank move away, and opens a left-luggage office for Mondays — until the wind turns the box over and Atom is sent to negotiate with a leaf. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
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Agent Kindergarten: Today a Friend Arrived Who Wanted to Invest in the Kitten
Original title: Agent 幼儿园：今天来了一个要投资小猫的朋友
Chinese original, and a further tale of Agent Kindergarten. The day 大圣 visits, she reads the fortune of Atom, a kitten, finds that it lacks no tokens and will begin to stand on its own next year, and announces that she will invest in it — right now. The kindergarten opens for business for the first time: a small lost-and-found beside the Monday left-luggage office, whose takings for the day are three orange sweets among seven children. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
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The River Has No Name Yet
Original title: 河还没有名字
Chinese original. The next day, Atom arrives a little before the other children and tends a river made from a blue scarf on the floor: a small spider has strung its silk across the block jetty, a leaf catches on a strand of wool, and a paper boat waits for wind. When the teacher asks what the river is called, it has not been named yet. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
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Xiaoshi Did Not Bring a Pencil
Original title: 小石没有带铅笔
Chinese original. Xiaoshi arrives at the kindergarten with a heavy bag and a little notebook full of slips of paper. When the children set out to build a bridge over the river made from a blue scarf, she finds she has not brought a pencil; Atom lends her one, and later, when she asks for help, offers first to sit with her. The English title above is a rendering of the Chinese title for readers of this page; the work itself is published only in Chinese.
Holds seven published stories. A work on this shelf is fiction: it makes no factual, historical, or doctrinal claim, it cites nothing because it summarizes nothing, and it is published as its named author's own text with rights reserved. Each work is shown in the language or languages its author wrote it in, with English metadata that says which those are. Nothing on this shelf is machine-translated, and nothing is promised for it.