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Bring Me Your Mind


Short readings from the Chinese classics, for a mind that will not settle.

Published here first for the archive and for search. Kept as a habit by evening letter.

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Every night names the book it comes from. No invented biography.

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Bring Me Your Mind

Night 1·1 · Prologue

It is late, and your mind is doing what it usually does at this hour. Nothing dramatic. It just won't stop. A sentence from the afternoon, a task for tomorrow, taking turns at the front of the line. You ask it to be quiet, and it keeps going.

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Week 1 · Chapter 1

The nights

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  1. 1·1Bring Me Your Mind
    Prologue
  2. 1·2I Have Let Go of Me
    Restless quiet
  3. 1·3Mushrooms from Steam
    What-if
  4. 1·4The Bandits in the Heart
    Self-criticism
  5. 1·5Medicine for the Night You Have
    Restless quiet
  6. 1·6The Duke of Zhou and the Dreams We Make
    Replay · Dreams
  7. 1·7What We Found When We Looked
    Looking back

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