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| Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter. The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up |
Liao Yiwu * 16 June 1958
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| Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter. The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up |
Waste not want not?
ReplyDeleteI feel reminded of Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal; and of the fleeing Vietnamese woman being told before entering a boat with her baby on one arm and a young sow on the other that each refugee was allowed to take but one item with them. "I opted for the pig, because I thought once I'd have survived I could have another baby."
DeleteSatire being surpassed by reality.
As for Liao Yiwu: A remarkable man.
I had to laugh at EC's comment but some things happen in mankinds history that make ones mind recoil.
ReplyDeleteSurely I mentioned it before: Sometimes I wish(ed), I were but a humble gardener with love for poetry ...
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