The personal tone of the letters and diaries evokes a certain human pity, but also a revulsion at the mingling of grave events and babytalk: these people, one feels, would make revolutionaries of us all.

• 信件与日记富有个人色彩的调子会引起一定的同情，可重大事件与幼稚语言的混杂又令人反感：读者会觉得，有这帮人当权，我们都会变成革命党。