The photograph 'the romance of the auto/biographer's desk' is a tardis; when I enter the photograph I can move through time, move through a variety of times indeed.

Put it in the tickler file for next week.

I am employed as a female worker at the Prosperity Hosiery Factory, which is at Ch'ing-chiang-p'u [near Shanghai].

The boss has been working our arses off all week.