Dance on the Steel Wire

Xiao Jidong, the protagonist of the novel, is a man who never shows his emotions on face, "e;even he has experienced intense mental activities, he will show nothing on his face"e;.He is such a kind of person. Firstly, he served as a bus driver. One day, the bus broke down halfway. In the endless scolding, a thought flashed in his brain, it would be better to enter the university.Then, he took the exam and entered a famous university. After graduation, he stayed in the university and served as a teacher for 10 years. Later, because of the titles, he felt dull and insipid.When the bell rang, he thought "e;why not go home since the future is so boring"e;. Between classes, he wrote a report and turned in to the dean after class.Because his actions were muffled and unexpected. So each change made people surprised and sparked heated arguments in a long term.Xiao returned to his former career. After the initial excitement, Xiao encountered an accident which was out of a good will. When the chain effect made him upset, he received a invitation letter of an academic conference for his paper to be published.As a result, "e;Xiao Jidong began to miss the formulas of those numbers. He missed the day when he was sitting at a table thinking hard and deliberating again and again. He missed the sound of knocking the keyboard in the computer room and the silence in the laboratory. The students, the feelings of being a teacher, the demeanor shown when teaching students, the blackboard, the arc of the chalk when it was thrown into the chalk box, the abstract, the distress when thinking, the sublime, all these were what he missed a lot.