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have you even asked Chinatown?

2.3 We may have to plan, said Ben, for the possibility of an insurrection in which we hold out in the I-Hotel.

2.4 You know we have our stash hidden, suggested a member. _We could easily funnel it into the hotel, arm the place to the teeth. Once under attack, we could draw all of Chinatown…

—p.361 I Hotel 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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I do not offer the old smooth prizes topic/love

9.1 Olivia said:

I do not offer the old smooth prizes,
but offer rough new prizes.
These are the days that must happen to us.
We shall not heap up what is called riches;
we shall scatter with lavish hand all that we earn or achieve.
However sweet the laid-up stores,
however c…

—p.348 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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your friend is your needs answered topic/love

8.2 Your friend is your needs answered. She is your field, which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And she is your board and your fireside. For you come to her with your hunger, and you seek her for peace.

8.3 _When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own min…

—p.347 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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the rebellious zeal of their separate passions inspo/dream inspo/revelation

7.1 When the epiphany came as it tends to near the end of one's life, Bienvenido Senior saw his dead mother in a wreath of light at the foot of his bed and, fearing for his life, followed her out of his house in Daly City, along the silent avenues, and into a grocery market, losing her somewhere am…

—p.342 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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tabula rasa

Marriage was a new beginning equal to a romantic reading of the destructive nature of war: a tabula rasa.

—p.339 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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