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Catriona Strang
Miscellaneous Bits for Extrafine Imperial Twankay
war without witness
safe zone
tea war
like a jury
domestic isolation & capital’s reach
Proust: “our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people”
the perilous things that might happen (Nina)
intertwining
ritual provides a context in which beauty is possible
eyelids
leathery, green, & shiny
& of serrated edge
an effusion of yellow stamens
to flush, to make easy
hilled & weeded
plucked & dried
moistened sand
white hair
sparrow’s tongue, falcon’s talon, ear of corn
encouraged and then halted
tea & porcelain, export & the creation of desire: opium, & the opium wars
tea & truth
the drink of peace (!)
quick & lasting triumph
rhubarb, sugar, ammonia, salt, hops, manure, lime, guano, silk
tea & purity
stoppage or blockage
melancholia, aching, smarting, troubling affliction
some curling as the eaves
just as clouds do
as if filtered
carved out, violent rain, newly-tilled
old & barren
a decision for the month to make
it is hexagonal, it comes to a sharp point
when the bowl is thus extended, the center will be agitated
to standardize, to set limits
so that they can be displayed, there are no short cuts
taste & trade – a pastoral nation – taste & politics
pure, strong, & delicious
addiction, taxation, smuggling (sounds like tobacco)
compressed cakes highly transportable
virtue was discovered
repercussions would echo
slaughters & atrocities
we are perfectly confident
we have indefatigable researches
by for that has ever been
agricultural or commercial resources of this empire
will be brought to light
will be found capable of being
& that consequently before long
fully realized
pile it high, sell it cheap
loss leaders
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