sachets from their background, carefully tracing out
its shape: each click and each drag of the mouse
creating a point, setting the traced path to go left or
right, instructing the programme what to and what not
to exclude.
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We finally had supper at Liat Towers, sharing a bowl of
Okra Aemono after the third consecutive time you
didn’t remember we were meeting. By now our affinity
was more well-defined in the past than it was in that
present – to reiterate our friendship was to reiterate
the past: to dwell on the entire tub of Black Forest we
finished at Island Creamery, or the busker at the
Buona Vista underpass rebuking our furtive effort to
take his photograph, or the steakhouse along a little
side street in the Sichuanese capital. The first time we
were there, the owner's little puppy, visibly sick and
unwashed, threw up all over your jacket. I never
thought of you as being capable of berating anyone but
berate him you did – and not even because of the
viscous chunks of light yellow dripping down your
sides – it merely escaped you how anyone could even
think about treating another living being in such a
manner.
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| Chen
lin Yi
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