With indifference befitting a scholar, Lu Yu does not divulge the menus. The exotica of Hangchow restaurants—pig cooked in ashes, scented shellfish, lotus-seed soup— would have been out of place, though the ideal Confucian diet of rice with fresh or pickled vegetables would have been supplemented by fish and meat to show respect for the diners’ rank.

Although intellectual property rights, such as patents, are highly observable, they are mostly limited to product technologies. Process technologies, or the routines endemic in the firm's production, are not readily observable, and thus cannot be easily imitated.

The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.

[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that—lowering his voice to an important whisper—will be exceedingly welcome to all parties. Recollecting himself, however, he added, That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]