Where you are looking from, all the way to where the guard stands, is the thickness of that ancient Xi’an city wall.
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Water lines
Took me a while to figure what kind of lines can astonish. I am pleasantly surprised to recall one such line – a Roman aqueduct in Segovia!
Wat lines
To get myself out of that pattern of dense thoughts and feels, I have put up this collage of pictures more in the form of “wat-the-heck” lines.
Arabian nights
So many crevices for Genie to hide. So many nooks and crannies for multiple genii to spring a surprise.
Confusionism
The glorious academic plans were thwarted by an offer to develop a huge-ass farm in SzeChuan.
The Weir
A separate pilot new town project was inchoate and we were just waiting to get over the red tape to start on the detailed work.
The long haul
A long haul project of four years brought me to a city that now sits very close to my heart. I worked on Yangzhou, flying in and out every three weeks.