One hopes this is advice of the wish-fulfillment rather than the practical sort. It sounds rather... Nixonian.
(And then there's the word-verif string of the moment, one of those startling ones forming actual words (in this case, with its own Wikipedia entry): brazing. Perhaps the new buildings in the city of your dream were erected in this way, although I hope not.)
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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One hopes this is advice of the wish-fulfillment rather than the practical sort. It sounds rather... Nixonian.
(And then there's the word-verif string of the moment, one of those startling ones forming actual words (in this case, with its own Wikipedia entry): brazing. Perhaps the new buildings in the city of your dream were erected in this way, although I hope not.)
Yes, one of my more sinister musings, I admit. I am not a man to be trifled with.
Isn't this just "don't get mad, get even?"
Not quite. More sophisticated. Distilled bile.
Or as the best (including Heath Ledger) protrayal of the Joker says in "Killing Joke" (well worth the read)... "Don't get even, go mad."
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