![]() ![]() Book excerpt: Li Kao may have a slight flaw in his character but the book has none. ![]() This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Download or read book Bridge of Birds written by Barry Hughart and published by Del Rey. Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds 29 likes Like O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom' he bawled. Which, like any other day, will consist of gossip and giggles. Book Synopsis Bridge of Birds by : Barry Hughart. The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them. Then she dresses in a plum-blossom patterned tunic with matching skirt and stockings, adds four or five pounds of jewelry, looks in the mirror for any visible sign of humanity and is relieved to find none, checks her makeup to be sure that it has hardened into an immovable mask, sprinkles herself with the Hundred Ingredients Perfume of the Heavenly Spirits who Descended in the Rain Shower, and minces with tiny steps toward the new day. ![]() Then, after being bathed and toweled by her maids, she loosens her hair in the Cascade of Teasing Willows Style, paints her eyebrows in the Distant Mountain Range Style, anoints herself with the Nine Bends of the River Diving-water Perfume, applies rouge, mascara, and eye shadow, and covers the whole works with a good two inches of the Powder of the Nonchalant Approach. "In the morning a beauty must lie in bed for three or four hours gathering strength for another mighty battle with Nature. “Key Rabbit, allow me to bore you with a comparison of your wife and a beautiful woman," I said. ![]()
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