Monster's Notes, A by Sheck Laurie

Author:Sheck, Laurie [Sheck, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Novel, Homage
ISBN: 9780307272386
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

My Friend, in your last letter you started to write “but no form of attachment can” and then you stopped and crossed it out but I’ve been wondering, No form of attachment can—can what? and the suffering you feel and this question of your open eyes

Zhuangzi writes of the “blindness of the mind.” I feel this acutely in myself I don’t know how to

I don’t know how to write to you today

XX

Mon—mend shirt

Tues—buy more ink

”qin” means “lute”

ask Mr. Lin about the “torch of chaos and doubt”

TRANSLATION OF CAO XUEQIN’S 8TH NOTE:

A month of dust storms. I stay inside reading Zhuangzi. Only Zhuangzi. Even indoors my lungs burn and my eyes sting. I’ve caulked the window with rags. For over five weeks Red Inkstone hasn’t come. Animals walk with blinded eyes. Sometimes I dream sand’s falling around me faster than I can dig it away I try to speak but make only choking sounds. No sooner is the road cleared than it vanishes. There are so many maimed, deformed people in Zhuangzi’s book. Some have only one foot, one is so bent and crooked his chin nearly touches his navel, his left shoulder juts up above his head. The leper woman fears she’ll give birth to a child covered with sores. Yet Zhuangzi finds beauty in all this. If a man is cast aside he’s useless and to Zhuangzi that’s a form of freedom, of goodness. “The cinnamon can be eaten and so it gets cut down, the lacquer tree can be used and so it gets hacked apart.” Better to be useless. The man who’s seen as undesirable, maybe he can become free? No one wants or asks anything of him, or expects him to be other than he is. I sit inside and listen to the swarming dust. Lambs and goats stumbling and bleating.

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