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曾經深愛過 / 曾经深爱过

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“Back in the eighteenth century I would have been a sliver-collar boy. Did you ever hear about them? The highborn ladies of the court collected monkeys and peacocks and little blackamoors for pets. Slender young dark brown boys done up in silk with turbans wrapped around their heads and silver collars around their necks, and the name of the lady to whom they belonged was engraved on the silver collar. They were supposed to be pets like the peacocks and the monkeys, but in the old oil paintings, the lady's delicate white hand always fondled the silkclad shoulder of the silver-collar boy. So you knew they were something more useful, more serviceable--”

“The Dark Cloud Is the memory bank you have which time does not seem to heal Is the speed with which you block men who lie that they care about how you feel Is the questioning of where society is going and whether our icy coldness will lead us to complete destruction Is the stock market obsession some of us have and how we crave calculated instruction”