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# Mahjong
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/mahjong/
- Published: 2021-05-09T10:59:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:23.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Influences, Notebook

Mahjong is my favorite game. Everything is aestheticized: the clack of the tiles, the building of walls, and the language of seasons, flowers, and pork fat. The ritual of washing the tiles and talking junk. “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they play mahjong,” said my mother-in-law in the middle of our thirtieth game. Two games later, she said something to me that roughly translates as “you are still breathing but you have no strength.”

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