I like stories with texture. Even if it distracts from plot.
Give me an extravagant sense of place and a mystic's appreciation of focus -
Show me constellations of stars in coiling ribbons of smoke. Show me secrets of language in a bird's dance. Make me feel chill breeze in the leaden, strangling air of summer, and lose me amidst twining paths in a starlit wood. Leave me staring, certain I've seen a glimmer of the most precious apparition in dark masts of bamboo.
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