By Russell Lee
Confectioner
This happened to my niece. She invited a group of friends home
on a public holiday. They played with a board which had alphabets you
could roll around which then, formed words. The contraption was very
expensive and it was for talking with the spirits. Then one of her girlfriends
wanted to talk to her grandmother. She asked her grandmother what life
after death was like. When they were rolling the thing, the girlfriend felt a
nip on her forefinger. It began to bleed.
But the thing continued to move. The blood stained the board and
to everyone's alarm, it formed the Chinese character for "beautiful".
The girlfriend, after some thought, realised why it had to be so. Her
grandmother had to communicate by using blood instead of spelling it out
on the board. The reason was evident to her: her grandmother didn't
know any english.
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