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Text :

Hence these boxes full of
cards, envelopes, stamps,
opera tickets, photos of
actresses, banknotes, receipts,
bookmarks with ribbons, visas
on separate sheets (at the
time, a Chinese visa on your
passport kept you out of the
USA), folded notes, dinner
invitations, cutout flowers and
animals, characters from the
Peking Opera dancing at the
tip of wands as slender as the
diaphanous wings they wear
on their brows, sculpted in
some translucent material
resembling skin-the
disordered alphabet of a
language of objects.