pg 226: 'Almost everyone who has travelled for long alone in China becomes prey to an insidious attrition.' He was wearing thin
his exhaustion plays out wonderfully in his partially-remembered conversation with an enthusiastic vet: pg 227-8:
'Shack-es-peer is famous in our country. He wrote fifty plays...The Western languages all come from Latin, don't they?...We're new friends, aren't we?...Western history begins with Jesus...'
'I relieved my fury by making faces at him in the dark.'
he met a man raised by American mother - she raised him to be kind, much kinder than his fellow Chinese, he said - he did not fully understand them and vice-versa - signals enormous gulf of understanding between the West and China
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