"The passions evoked by clouds and rain, Joining their heads and twining their necks, within the bed curtains. Truly: When feelings converge, one is apt to forget what happens to a brocade girdle."
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two: The Rivals, trans. David Tod Roy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), Ch. 21, p. 8
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