joss
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(noun) a Chinese idol or cult image / (noun) a Chinese temple or shrine / (noun) a slender stick of incense burned in front of a joss
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Like the lady at the front of the Cathay mortuary who is burning paper—joss paper, otherworld paper money, paper clothing, paper replicas of cars, televisions, houses, servants, everything going up in symbolic smoke to send along with Dad in the next world.
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6 months ago
Like the lady at the front of the Cathay mortuary who is burning paper—joss paper, otherworld paper money, paper clothing, paper replicas of cars, televisions, houses, servants, everything going up in symbolic smoke to send along with Dad in the next world.
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tabula rasa
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(noun) the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions / (noun) something existing in its original pristine state (philosophy)
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Marriage was a new beginning equal to a romantic reading of the destructive nature of war: a tabula rasa.
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Marriage was a new beginning equal to a romantic reading of the destructive nature of war: a tabula rasa.
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jalopies
(en)
an old car in a dilapidated condition
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Lucy don’t have much education. Poor Okie girl rides in on a jalopy out of the Dust Bowl.
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Lucy don’t have much education. Poor Okie girl rides in on a jalopy out of the Dust Bowl.
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