Late at night. Waiting for emails for work. Stuffed on spicy chicken feet and duck foot.
Thought I'd post a few unusual quotes I encountered adventuring to Beijing...
What he taught me was to be reckless, taught me that if I let myself go, did not slow myself down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible.
'OK. Ready, steady, go,' I said.Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
fugue [from French fugue, an adaptatation of the Italian fuga, literaly "flight"; from the Latin fuga, related to fugere, to flee] 1. A polyphonic composition constructed on one or more short subjects or themes, which are harmonized according to the laws of counterpoint, and introduced from time to time with various contrapuntal devices. 2. Psychiatry. A flight from one's own identity....
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
My coworker: What kind of meat is this?
Chinese coworker: Um, Ah...meat cooked in a different way.
Coworker: Ah yes, I see, meat cooked in a different way.
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