gyrmination

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each [...]

Flurries. What does it even mean? Despite that, it sounds like the feeling. The body below disappears. Empty pit of stomach, in my chest a wrecking ball on its way through rice paper. When I concentrate on winning. I make it to the final round, then the sinking feeling of being overwhelmed, the unbearable weight [...]

I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post. First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest [...]

Bob brought home a dog. It’s actually composed of two ideas. Two menacing teeth pinch out into the air, like rodent mandibles on display at the airport gallery. It’s watching me by the glass door of some house. I can’t decide whether it’s waiting to welcome me, or standing guard against me. Bob goes in. [...]

The following comes to mind: 我知道我就要开始回忆 像烟花绽放后留下黑影 不肯散去 It’s a phrase from Sunrise. It roughly translates as: I know from now on I can only think back to those memories Like the darkness left by fireworks Unending I’m watching, and I can’t help but think that fireworks embody the importance of being in the herenow. [...]