"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

God, Body, Memory

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"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

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