The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
A giant shoe outside a life-size “Barbie Dreamhouse” Berlin, 2013; photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Dear PINK’s
If you buy jade earrings, he wanted to tell her, think of yourself with beautiful green pendants growing from your earlobes. If you put on that squirrel coat, the one in the furrier’s window, think of yourself as an animal with a velvety sleek coat of hair. If you buy the celadon-colored stockings hanging over there, the moment you pull them on, your legs will have a silken skin, warmed by your own coursing blood. If you slip into patent-leather shoes, the soft flesh of your heels will turn into glittering lacquer. *
PINK NOT DEAD!
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* Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Aguri (Aoi hana, 1922)
Seven Japanese Tales
Translated by Howard Hibbett