I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings. […] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.

an artist's sketch in the rough

The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.

Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.…The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.]