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Thank you! I just wrote out loads of questions to ask in class on Saturday--and this post addressed many of them. Appreciate your generosity...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_v_White

“Thou art in screaming primrose garlanded,

Arms interlaced, O gorgeous-painted friends,

Historically affixt charming and bright:

By far the wealthiest, most capable

Collective of boss models to pose ever,

Peerlessly cultured garden wünderkinds

Of league-wide visible world travellers,

Admired globalists of dizzying reach,

With yet the ripe still life fruit bowl of time

Unfolding fragrant forth her petalled breakfast,

Each polished ear resounds thy singing tunes,

And every open eye conveys thine image,

Waking democracy’s up generation, armed

For fresh wars at first bitter signal groan.

Possess thou dost a globe of followers,

Unto their number gorged more parent wealth

Inherited these next ten years than sum

Of every furrowed workweek hour on earth

Hath strength to generate for all mankind

To labour married through sickness and health;

More might than mere enough to do thy will

The thronging concert moneychangers’ hands

Have in their iron-fisted baller’s grasp.

Yet thy tongue speaks my ilk inferior far

To sheepskin draped across thy leisure couch,

Myself mere horsehair brush of foreign skill:

Such shall I ever be, for casting blame

More near to heart than treasured distant name.

Thy future holds not slenderest hope for me,

Chink-armoured captain whose exiling choice

Hath made stark opposite of fancy free,

For lacking what thou got’st from birth: thy voice.

Beg one another whatso thou wouldst change,

It cannot alter what high gods arrange.”

—白山, ‘Me Suena a Chino’, Opening Monologue

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoLwyWi7Z4c

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loved this! super helpful for a beginner like me. i’m going to try to stick to your “manuscript in 30 days” routine and see where it leads. thank you!!

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Hooray!

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