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just carries me somewhere, maybe with an oasis, but I don’t know.”
Suddenly the air being frozen. Feeling cold. I not know what to say anymore. You older than me twenty years. You must understand life better than me?
You look at me and you say: “It’s like the way you came into my life. I feel as if I am not naked anymore.”
I feel as if I am not naked anymore.
That a beautiful sentence.
I listen, I wait. I feel it something you not finish in your sentence, but you not want say it.
So I help you: “OK, I come into your life, but you not know if you wanting carry on this with me all the times. You will want to break it and see what can make you move on…”
“We will see.” You stop me, and take me into your arms.
“It’s important to be able to live with uncertainty.”
intimate
adj.
1. having a close personal relationship; 2. personal or private; 3. (of knowledge) extensive and detailed; 4. (foll. by
with
)
euphemistic
having a sexual relationship (with); 5. having a friendly quiet atmosphere–
n.
close friend.
intimate
How can
intimate
live with
privacy
?
We have lived together after first week we met. You said you never lived so closely with another person before. You always avoided intimate with the other person. You said to have your friends more important than your lovers. That’s so different with my Chinese love—family means everything.
Maybe people here have problems being intimate with each other. People keep distance because they want independence, so lovers don’t live with together, instead they only see each other at weekend or sleep together twice a week. A family doesn’t live with together therefore the intimate inside of a family disappeared. Maybe that why Westerners much more separated, lonely, and have more Old People’s House. Maybe also why newspapers always report cases of peterfiles and perverts.
We are in your old white van. You want to show me somewhere special called the Burnham Beach.
“Is it the British ocean?” I ask, excited to visit sea for first time. You are laughing.
“B-e-e-c-h, not b-e-a-c-h. In English, a beech is a type of tree, not an ocean. I’ll take you to the sea another time.”
How I ever understand your complicated language—not even any change in accent like we have in Chinese. We have four intonations, so every tone means different word. Like:
mi
in first tone means to close eyes.
mí
in second tone means to fancy something.
mi
in third tone means rice.
mì
in fourth tone means honey.
Anyway, on the highway of M40, I have my dictionaries to check out what exactly that
beach/beech
is.
Collins
tells me that is a European tree, but when I look my little
Concise
dictionary, says it is a tree called “Shan Mao Ju,” which grows everywhere in China. We cut those trees for lighting fires in kitchen. We used to carry baskets and collect their nutty seeds when we were little.
The woods are dark, lush, and wet.
Trees are huge, tall, and solid.
The whole woods are growing silently and secretly. The whole woods are decay. On way to woods it was a beautiful day, but inside woods the climate is totally different. Is chilly and rainy. Rain drops from those hundred-year-old greyish branches and leafs, and the rain fills the ponds stuffed by weeds.
In the muddy and greeny pond, lotus gently floats, and the dragonfly dashes. You hold me and caress me. We are in each other’s arm. You lift my denim skirt, and you touch my garden. My garden is warm and moist. You stroke my hip, and I unzip your jean. We make love. We make love. We make love under the silent beech tree. So quiet, so quiet. We can hear children on the football field in the distance are yelling. Only the rain drops, fall on our hair, our skin. Rain drops on the cowslip flower by our feet, without disturbing us.
free world
esp. US hist.
non-Communist countries.
free world
You say:
“I feel incredibly lucky to be with you. We’re going to have loads of exciting
Suddenly the air being frozen. Feeling cold. I not know what to say anymore. You older than me twenty years. You must understand life better than me?
You look at me and you say: “It’s like the way you came into my life. I feel as if I am not naked anymore.”
I feel as if I am not naked anymore.
That a beautiful sentence.
I listen, I wait. I feel it something you not finish in your sentence, but you not want say it.
So I help you: “OK, I come into your life, but you not know if you wanting carry on this with me all the times. You will want to break it and see what can make you move on…”
“We will see.” You stop me, and take me into your arms.
“It’s important to be able to live with uncertainty.”
intimate
adj.
1. having a close personal relationship; 2. personal or private; 3. (of knowledge) extensive and detailed; 4. (foll. by
with
)
euphemistic
having a sexual relationship (with); 5. having a friendly quiet atmosphere–
n.
close friend.
intimate
How can
intimate
live with
privacy
?
We have lived together after first week we met. You said you never lived so closely with another person before. You always avoided intimate with the other person. You said to have your friends more important than your lovers. That’s so different with my Chinese love—family means everything.
Maybe people here have problems being intimate with each other. People keep distance because they want independence, so lovers don’t live with together, instead they only see each other at weekend or sleep together twice a week. A family doesn’t live with together therefore the intimate inside of a family disappeared. Maybe that why Westerners much more separated, lonely, and have more Old People’s House. Maybe also why newspapers always report cases of peterfiles and perverts.
We are in your old white van. You want to show me somewhere special called the Burnham Beach.
“Is it the British ocean?” I ask, excited to visit sea for first time. You are laughing.
“B-e-e-c-h, not b-e-a-c-h. In English, a beech is a type of tree, not an ocean. I’ll take you to the sea another time.”
How I ever understand your complicated language—not even any change in accent like we have in Chinese. We have four intonations, so every tone means different word. Like:
mi
in first tone means to close eyes.
mí
in second tone means to fancy something.
mi
in third tone means rice.
mì
in fourth tone means honey.
Anyway, on the highway of M40, I have my dictionaries to check out what exactly that
beach/beech
is.
Collins
tells me that is a European tree, but when I look my little
Concise
dictionary, says it is a tree called “Shan Mao Ju,” which grows everywhere in China. We cut those trees for lighting fires in kitchen. We used to carry baskets and collect their nutty seeds when we were little.
The woods are dark, lush, and wet.
Trees are huge, tall, and solid.
The whole woods are growing silently and secretly. The whole woods are decay. On way to woods it was a beautiful day, but inside woods the climate is totally different. Is chilly and rainy. Rain drops from those hundred-year-old greyish branches and leafs, and the rain fills the ponds stuffed by weeds.
In the muddy and greeny pond, lotus gently floats, and the dragonfly dashes. You hold me and caress me. We are in each other’s arm. You lift my denim skirt, and you touch my garden. My garden is warm and moist. You stroke my hip, and I unzip your jean. We make love. We make love. We make love under the silent beech tree. So quiet, so quiet. We can hear children on the football field in the distance are yelling. Only the rain drops, fall on our hair, our skin. Rain drops on the cowslip flower by our feet, without disturbing us.
free world
esp. US hist.
non-Communist countries.
free world
You say:
“I feel incredibly lucky to be with you. We’re going to have loads of exciting
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