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OH were they lovely, those feline creatures of the
Peking Opera, before Madame Mao decided that
they led the people astray. In truth, the ladies of
the Red Women's Detachment weren't bad either.
and once I even lound myself missing them
in the train to Canton, while the on board TV
displayed the atrocious Yankee strain clones
that the way of the world had brought
to blossom. Thus I experienced a
fragile moment berween two
opaque times, when the old
had shed only its ornaments,
and the new offered only its
promise: a dawn between
two nights, which never
had the strength to
give birth to
the day.