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tom rosenthal, my life is a song for you / tang jiuqing, qiang jin jiu; translated by awa / euripides, grief lessons: four plays; translated by anne carson / rafael campo, california / anne carson, plainwater: essays and poetry / bram stoker, dracula / jeanette winterson, lighthousekeeping / mary oliver, the sun: new and selected poems, volume 1 / jeanette winterson, lighthousekeeping / sara ghazal ali, there are versions to everything

#qiang jin jiu #qjj #don't look at me as i spiral #web weaving #sure i guess i made this web weave diverse enough so that people w no knowledge of #cezhou #could appreciate it #but it's more bc awa's translation hasn't reached that far and i want my experience of the novel be limited to hers #the whole concept of xiao chi'ye being a source of light (comfort) and reassurance for shen zechuan makes me insane #the best part is that he realizes what the handkerchief means to shen zechuan and sure he jokes about it first but he NEVER asks it back #i am trying so hard to be normal about this but it's my blog and no one can stop me from this act of self indulgence #BUT other than this it's also the fact that shen zechuan looks at himself as 'bleached dead man's bones'#while xiao chi'ye is 'the reflection on the other side' literally from the land of the living #he's still full of life and light and of course that's something shen zechuan doesn't have and why he tries to clumsily mimic him #sorry sorry these two make me insane

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