Tom Collins
Ho Ho Hic
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A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without it's mysteries, it cannot survive. I certainly wasn't born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current.
The first time I knew my mother was sick was when my father threw the fish back into the sea. That night we went hungry. "To understand emptiness," he told us.
Mother always said my sister, Satsu, was like wood. As rooted to the earth as a sakura tree. But she told me I was like water. Water can carve its way, even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
~ Memoirs of a Geisha
The first time I knew my mother was sick was when my father threw the fish back into the sea. That night we went hungry. "To understand emptiness," he told us.
Mother always said my sister, Satsu, was like wood. As rooted to the earth as a sakura tree. But she told me I was like water. Water can carve its way, even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
~ Memoirs of a Geisha