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Language of Love - Prologue. Introduction
Language of Love
By W.L
(Dedicated to a boy I recently met, not sure what will happen with us)
Introduction:
I know, I write sci-fi and technical fiction. I don’t usually write in this gritty style or romance, but after my dog’s passing and my recent encounter with a guy, I thought I would draw on my real life experiences and use my real voice in storytelling. You might have seen part of my real voice with the story “In the Cold”, in an old anthology, but it was much more polished. This time around, I feel like writing a fiction story with a modification of my inner voice. My newest acquaintance, who I cannot confirm as a lover or even a one night stand as we have not done anything sexual yet, have only attempted to speak to one another. Communication in on itself is difficult, because he is a 25 year old northern-born Chinese graduate student, who speaks broken English and is proficient in Mandarin. I am a 26 years old southern-born Chinese accountant with fluent English and Hong Kong-styled Cantonese dialect. We’re both native Chinese speakers, but dialects still matter in how we communicate. When we try to speak Chinese to each other, we can pick up pieces of what the other one is trying to say, but our intonation is off.
We’re very similar in our cultural heritage and know the same idioms, but we have very different outlooks and interpretations. We are using an alien language, English in this regards, as a common means of communication. We also have very odd taste for each other’s Chinese cultures; I like northern wheat noodles, lamb, and dumplings. He likes southern fried rice, rice noodles, and pork. Something most people do not know is that Northern Chinese people and Southern Chinese people are actually diametrically parallel, like the American North and South taken to a further extreme. Without the common written language, which I do not actually know, there would probably have been two or more nations in China. Still, we both acknowledge a mutual interest in each other and thought we should try out a relationship.
That is basically the heart of Language of Love, I find the idea to be interesting and it parallels my life, so why not try to turn life into art? I never write about my cultural heritage, nor has there been much on modern gay Chinese relationships dealing with varying cultures.
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