6/21/2023 0 Comments Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart![]() ![]() I am a farmer, and a farmer needs strong sons to help with his work, but before a year had passed you had stolen my heart. Your name is Ah Chen, and when you were born I was not truly pleased. ![]() ― Barry Hughart, quote from Bridge of Birds ![]() Which, like any other day, will consist of gossip and giggles.” Then she dresses in a plum-blossom patterned tunic with matching skirt and stockings, adds four or five pounds of jewelry, looks in the mirror for any visible sign of humanity and is relieved to find none, checks her makeup to be sure that it has hardened into an immovable mask, sprinkles herself with the Hundred Ingredients Perfume of the Heavenly Spirits who Descended in the Rain Shower, and minces with tiny steps toward the new day. Then, after being bathed and toweled by her maids, she loosens her hair in the Cascade of Teasing Willows Style, paints her eyebrows in the Distant Mountain Range Style, anoints herself with the Nine Bends of the River Diving-water Perfume, applies rouge, mascara, and eye shadow, and covers the whole works with a good two inches of the Powder of the Nonchalant Approach. "In the morning a beauty must lie in bed for three or four hours gathering strength for another mighty battle with Nature. “Key Rabbit, allow me to bore you with a comparison of your wife and a beautiful woman," I said. ![]()
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