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My Mother Figure
"If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better" (Anne Lamott)
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April 2024

In a Trail of Mists and Perfumes
or The Stranger (Neznakomka), a poem by Aleksandr Blok
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March 2024

Human Signs
Veni Creator, a poem by Czesław Miłosz
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Show us your tits!
It's Spring, after all
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The French (Dis)connection
French was the first foreign language I'd heard as a child, which made me aware of the many different ways people all around the world communicate with…
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February 2024

A Malaysia Trip
Part 2
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A Malaysia Trip
Part 1
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Zibow Retailleau
A Library Mouse
As we say in Italian, or, in English – a bookworm, a mostly harmless beast, usually found in libraries and bookshops, or gravitating around bookshelves…
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Sweet Potatoes
I’m Zibow, a Chinese translator living in Mauritius. I am interested in the Great Wall as well as the Great Firewall.
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January 2024

The Yellow Wall
Proust and Vermeer’s View of Delft
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The Portia Hypothesys
A weighty name
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December 2023

Happy New Year!
To a serendipitous 2024
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