李察你想表達甚麼？

.....I think the story of butterfly and cockroach is an analogy which should not been interpreted in the literal context, but in the context of philosophy. The main theme of the story is not to downgrade and humiliate the culture of cockroaches, but describe, in a very romantic way, the situation when two cultures, with one being seen as better by other, meet. The butterfly in the story represents some people of rich family, or of good talent, while cockroach represent people coming from poor family, or of not good talent. The story that cockroach changes its habitat and its color to suit its partner, butterfly, is just showing a natural reaction of people, who thought itself not so good as the partner one. Such story, of course, is not first invented by leechard. It has happened many times at many intervals in history. Russian modernization under Peter the Great, Chinese and Japanese modernization at late 19 century. I think this is the message leechard is going to convey through his story, and this story, with appropriate words and expressions used, is a good one in expressing clearly this ideas to all his readers and fans here.

I really hope that those cockroaches would well-understand that after they have read my explanations here. I really wish to see those cockroaches to reply to me, or your reply towards my letter.

Best wishes,
william


李察回應：

故事其實跟昆蟲類無關。故事想講的是人類的「文化」現象。
但這似乎是太學術化了點，所以用故事形式表達吧了。
不過，「文化」是太枯躁的題材，沒幾人有興趣的。

李察謹上