“Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted”
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive. ”
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