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Hi everyone,

Still thinking about masked girl, I just added this to article:

Perhaps she sleeps with mask on? Covid can wiggle through slits under doors. Plastic surgeons should offer flesh colored masks as facial extensions. Designer babies will be born already masked.

Linh

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I must bring up the recently mentioned O.Panizza again.He stenographed a religious lecture when he was young,it went like,what is is the source of all evil?You guessed it,nudity.The lecturer went on,"There was a young couple,so entirely devout,their kid was born in a tuxedo".

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A chapter from pastoral medicine:

https://www-projekt--gutenberg-org.translate.goog/panizza/visionen/chap014.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

The word `children`is mistranslated about 4 times,it should be `clothes`

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A refreshing update, Linh.

Yes, I was imagining the NY dress slightly pivoting in order to get a decent jaw shot. Hilarious really.

Being averse to pricks and needles I could never sport a tattoo, however I'm sometimes interested to know what words or image the tatted choose to identify with. Unless of course I'm trying to decipher my way around a Bosch painting, then at that point why bother. Which brings me to wonder about the tricep gal, guy? (don't wanna mis-gender, don't wanna trigger any crypto-commies who may be lurking). At any rate, the tarot images,, ok .. as for the strutting cartoonish ghost, do you see a surfboard under its arm or is that a pickle? If a pickle - High Art in my book. Either way Asian humor is definitely in a league of its own.

p.s. W. Eugene Smith got nothing on you 👍

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Most people in Taiwan have no idea what their shirts say; even if their English is somewhat fluent. They just like how the English words look. I remember some classic shirts form the past: "Pin-head club" and "Sissy Boy." Given some time I could think of some really funny shirts.

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Holy crap, the whole world is turning American: fat, stupid, tatted up, and slovenly. It's no wonder that over his career, David Bowie went from singing "Young Americans" to "I'm Afraid of Americans". Well, John Titor did mention that people in the future don't like Americans very much..

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Dear Mr. Linh,

Speaking of talent of success, I would like to know if it would be possible to reproduce your poem "To flee conjugation" in a small independent literary magazine I publish. I will send you a copy, of course. I am still preparing it, not sure when it will come out.

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Hi Tom,

Yes, do include it in your lit mag.

Cheers!

Linh

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