The Mirror That Foretold

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Pu Songling

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Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio)

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On the night before the autumn exam results, a scholar's wife performs the old rite of listening at the mirror: a mirror set in a sieve, carried by a child, and the first overheard words are the prophecy. What she hears sounds like the language of a man who has fallen, and she grieves through the long dark before she learns, at the door, what the gods meant her to hear.

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