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‘—North Exit 3—breakfast order: three cups of warm soy milk—two mantou buns with egg—fried youtiao (in between) shaobing flatbread. I first read about Sylvia Plath in college—Her resolve—must have been extraordinarily strong for her to bake her own head—I told Old Wang—Camphor. Timber. Humidity—a specific scent wafting off its characters—musk that Taiwanese Hoklo sometimes exuded—consonants tripped over each other—’
— Jul 31, 2026 12:50PM
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‘—a sequence of the dirtiest Taiwanese Hoklo cusswords—to the point where—(they) began to sound almost musical. I looked over—but she only shrugged. I thought, I’ll believe anything you tell me from now on—you do your best to connect the dots—forcing the dots to connect—ignorance stemming from human instincts to learn. Sometimes, it can manifest in quite poetic ways—An adult's animosity is always glaringly obvious—’
— Jul 28, 2026 10:18AM
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is on page 9
‘People who ask writers how much of the story is ‘true’ are condemned to live with the inability to—fully appreciate—By around 5000 characters, I knew that 72.63% of the protagonist’s experience were my own—I decided that if he was to be autonomous, his interior life would have to remain unknowable—I deleted all the sections where the narrator is omniscient—the familiar figurative language—Frankly, it’s unreadable.’
— Jul 28, 2026 09:52AM