flâneur

we grew up in a valley - by ellen - sheng ri kuai le - https://shengrikuaile.substack.com/

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may 2022

You have seen this dream. They took you here on vacation in autumn. It was the first of your intermediate school years, and it was autumn back home, so it was spring here, and that meant there should have been pink blooms in the air, but you didn’t see any. Instead there was just a lot of smoke that you, and everybody else, you supposed, were breathing. This fact made you upset. Let there be smoke, but why did it have to be in your lungs, so rough, abrasive? The sky was grey and you could not see the sun except for the sad glow in the least dirty part of the sky. There were park benches…

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