What’s the worst thing you can do to a man?

The Weight of Silk on Skin

What’s the worst thing you can do to a man?

It’s not to fight him; to break him; to defeat him – we expect that.

“Hail Caesar; those who are about to die salute you!”

It’s to see him as other than he is: as a man with a heart when he only has a body; as a man with only a body when all that he is is a heart – contracting and expanding, year upon year.

To see him as noble when he is base; to see him as false when he is true.

— Huzir Sulaiman, The Weight of Silk on Skin.

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Laremy Lee

A versatile educator, writer and editor, Laremy Lee (李庭辉) has the uncanny knack of being one of the few among his generation in Singapore who crafts compelling stories in different genres.

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