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Author: Sun Ganlu
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Publish Date: 2003-08-02
Features: From the hardcover edition of "Selected Works of Baudelaire," Luo Ke extracts the index finger tucked inside, reminiscing about everything it has touched. The half-smoked cigarette still curling like a snake from the white rim of the ceramic ashtray. It hasn’t burned completely, so the scent of smoke remains pungent. He walks barefoot along the patterns of the floor for two steps, pushing open the half-closed window. Memories and the dense shadows of French leaves flood into his view. The street is very quiet. The whistle of a distant ocean liner sounds like a sob, drifting into the room from an extremely remote place.