Airplane cabin hush; Waiting, dormant, outside time. Reborn on landing.
A final 'going away' haiku for you (post-dated, to maintain a deceptive appearance of normality). I do still rather enjoy the experience of air travel.
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oh, i couldn't wait two whole days to read this. I had to enjoy it, now. but I will return on Friday, no doubt and re-examine/re-appreciate this.
Hey, caren isn't the only one missing you! When do you get back? I thought this was a 2 -- maybe 3 -- week disappearance... don't tell me you've been trying to walk off into nothing from 20th floor windows, again.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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oh, i couldn't wait two whole days to read this. I had to enjoy it, now. but I will return on Friday, no doubt and re-examine/re-appreciate this.
enjoy your cabin hush. safe travels.
When you coming home?? We miss you!!
Another two weeks. Be patient.
We'll miss you at the wedding!
Yes, sorry I can't make that. Will be thinking of you. Have a blast!
just finished Saramago... lost in thought
Hey, caren isn't the only one missing you! When do you get back? I thought this was a 2 -- maybe 3 -- week disappearance... don't tell me you've been trying to walk off into nothing from 20th floor windows, again.
p.s. caren, congrats on wedding festivities!
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