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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I have not finished the first draft of the new book I said I would have done by this week. Close, but not quite. Still need some words; still need to fiddle. There’s a magazine…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY You live in a northern capital Time passes You leave You live in a fragrant harbour Time passes You leave But Like a tree that has sucked in water sucked in air to build stories…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Notes on Forgetting Never take anything for granted: the inner flame despite the wind; unquiet hearts in the plaza; the breathable air in the streets. On this any other day, this city feels so old…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY 阿飛正傳: 1989 – 2023 In April 1989, I was living in Providence, Rhode Island and working as a speechwriter. I was 23 and everything seemed possible: books to read, poems and stories to write, lips…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Three Paintings with Regard to June 4th Night Ritual (2011) oil on canvas, 25×100 cm People burning paper to send thoughts to the dead. In the painting there are six people on the left, four on…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning, 4 June 2023 Two and a half years after leaving Hongkong, we’re now in a Causeway Bay hotel that overlooks Victoria Park. Well, the rooms on the other side of the hotel overlook the…
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N TO JUST ANOTHER DAY When I woke up, I picked up my phone straight away. The very first thing I saw was Instagram footage of the artist Sanmu Chen being detained in Causeway Bay. One police officer was holding…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Every Sunday morning, I listen to a radio programme that plays new music. And on this day, a date when something terrible happened 34 years ago, I thought of songs about forgetting and remembering, of…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My Ordinary Experience The year the event took place I was almost four years old. I only had vague and fragmented memories of some TV footage of things burning, people running, and my mom’s crying…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I forgot to water the mint this morning before I left and when I came home it was limp, every leaf from the top ones the caterpillars keep chewing off in the night to the…
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