gin sling

It ended with the Chinese Communists, as inheritors of China’s history, “museumifying” the past that their own sense of Chineseness would not comfortably let them denounce in total.

How can such a head not tempt him tonguely? And so he tastes it; […]

He watched the upper fold of the curved line rolling itself out almost parallel to the lower, and the flies finally alighting upon the surface of the water one after the other in beautiful sequence from the bobfly to the tail.