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Natural Beauty

Ling Ling Huang

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“shudder with revulsion at the mention of Victor’s name and at the beautiful woman in front of me whose involvement in predatory crimes is being presented in the media as lunacy and victimhood, ambition, even feminism.”

“read about the occultist’s interest in converting Hitler to his temple of Thelema and his propensity for secretly drugging dinner guests to study them under the influence. My phone dies then, and I am relieved to have an excuse to stop reading about Aleister Crowley’s followers smearing diarrhea into each other’s eyes.”

“forget that classical music is often stripped of its power in places like this, where it is used as a pacifier for the rich.”

“You may not remember much, but in your day-to-day, you’ll start to get the sense of calm and general wellness that comes from psychosexual alignment. A lot of the women here think of their services as a kind of sexual meditation.”

“Wait, do you not think eyeshadow in a bamboo case is going to save the world?” I pretend to be shocked. “Exactly! And does anyone really need new eyeshadow? It isn’t our fault, of course. Buying stuff is supposed to make us happy. It’s a Band-Aid slapped on top of structural issues that actually need to be addressed. My point is, there are real and serious needs, and businesses should be striving to serve those instead of trying to manufacture new ones.”

“Victor was still keeping tabs on you, and with your parents more or less out of the way, it became very convenient to consider you as an option. All of our girls are somewhat isolated from any family or social circles for precisely this purpose.”

“This might be a strange question, but she worked at Holistik, right? Is it possible Holistik is testing on human subjects?”

“This isn’t your normal sordid motel affair; these are transcendent sexual experiences. Enlightenment, if you will, for both our clientele and our sex workers. Physical needs and spiritual needs are deeply connected, and we’ve worked hard to figure out how to fulfill them simultaneously.”

“This city is so expensive, and yet there seem to be so many who manage to live with comfort, even excess.”

“They focus on my Chinese descent, making me a trope, as if to say only an exotic dragon lady could have been the one to set fire to Victor’s house of cards.”

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