“The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.

[…] Yet she glanced no thought At her own mermaid nakedness but gathering The long black serpents of beached seaweed wove Wreaths for old Jinny and crowned and wound her. […]

The Hami melon, native to the Hami Region of Sinjiang Province, has found a new home here in Jhuangwei, Yilan. The soil downstream of the Lanyang River is great for the cultivation of hami melon because of the plentiful sunshine, excellent water system, and the local mild weather. The Hami melon was introduced to Jhuangwei in 1982.

Thus rhetorical theorists sometimes used demegoric rhetoric, somewhat inappropriately, to stand for deliberative as a whole; and though Aristotle recognized the use of deliberative rhetoric in private situations, in fact his account of deliberative focuses on demegoric almost exclusively.