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emily
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‘—he wonders how a greenhouse worker could quote Xin Qiji’s Song dynasty poem—squatting and carefully arranging each pot—He finds a tree to sit—gets out his cigarettes, offering one to Xu, who refuses. In Nanjing, he chose a train at random and ended up with a ticket to Sichuan—Hunan, Hubei, Jiangnan, and Beijing. In Viktor Pelevin’s novella, ‘The Yellow Arrow,’ a train misses its destination & keeps going forever—’
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emily
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‘—burn through the book at 20 pages per second—his body lightening—coming back to life inch by inch—The cigarette scorches a black-rimmed hollow right through Songs of Chu, like a creature burrowing through—He picks up the now numberless book & looks through the hole at the next book on the shelf—Bai Juyi’s Collected Works. The phone rings—he thinks about the Cao Zhi line, ‘Such sorrowful wind on this high terrace.’’
— Jun 28, 2026 08:15PM
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sont Nguyen
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Munian is meeting up with a friend “Third leg”
— Jun 28, 2026 03:39AM
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