Radical Eclecticity

Now I can say, “I’m here!”
That was all… talk to you later.
Hmm… Ok, ok, I’ll elaborate. 
The first thing that I noticed is that, when speaking with locals, it’s really pretty easy for me to get the gist, and really easy to utterly miss the point, too. Nancy and Xu Xiaofeng picked me up […]

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I write this blog entry at 35,000 feet over the Bearing Sea. Of course, by the time anyone reads it, I’ll already be in China, but I have resisted the temptation to compose my words as though I was aready there. For one thing, what I write once I actually arrive will have a lot […]

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