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taiwanese grass jelly herb (3.1/5) (cooling, bitter mint sensation that feels light but has an intense climate. apparently, when steeped with agar agar or gelatin, it can thicken into a jelly. however, i would prefer to drink the herb as is.) "And surely you have seen, in the darkness of the most innermost rooms of these huge buildings, to which sunlight never penetrates, how the gold lead of a sliding door or screen will pick up a distant glimmer from the garden, then suddenly send forth an ethereal glow, a faint golden light cast into the enveloping darkness. How in such a dark place, gold draws so much light to itself is a mystery to me. Modern man, in his well-lit house, knows nothing of the beauty of gold, but those who lived in the dark houses of the past were not merely captivated by its beauty, they also knew its practical value, for gold in these dim rooms, must have served the function of a reflector. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." Tanizaki'...

Yellow Fever

"Call down the girl from the mud-slicked mountains, pluck the evidence

of August from her head of shorn kelp. This caterwauling girl, less

man than animal. Cheeks smeared wild from the chokeberries she

picked, brambles at the river’s lip too giving. Doesn’t she know the

stained hand of generosity, never to trust it? Nothing is free. China

doll. Baby. Some men want you prim on their knee: lips bite red. The

coal hue of your eyes irrefutable. You were never meant to be

American. Your root, they believe they can taste: carnal amen, rice

milk and spice. A winter sunrise fogged in the land of morning calm.

All imagined, but no matter. You are still a girl. With luck, the guilty

ones will wait awhile. When the first blood releases between your

thighs, they’ll come. You were born knowing to mourn this."


-Excerpt from "Some are Always Hungry" by Jihyun Yun


read the rest of her book!!!!! it's so good....... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-rYmCFlTn9JKYLrzlsfkW4lp8e08tikt/view




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