train ride - history of trains in China and of the cities he passes
on a bus a 'conductress' gave Thubron her seat so he had to operate the door
pg 74: he runs across a young girl who wishes to study Early Medieval Sculpture in the US - he reflects on how he took for granted the places she'll never see and ends by noting a youth chasing a lizard to eat
present at unveiling of Confucius' new statue
dispelling myths at Confucius' tomb - pg 84-5
*Men go to war to prove themselves to themselves." -ATC story
at another mausoleum talking to a random guy about the West
at a hospital? acupuncture?
briefly meets a metaparanoid Frenchman
on a school tour he is not impressed with the machine-like presentations but connects with a young girl who accompanies him
visits a Protestant Church and talks with a priest, they talk about religion and 'The Gang of Four'
*these writings are meant to take the reader where they've never been (or to help them see in a different way something they have seen) - the point is to make it worth the reader's while
at a friend's family's - already I feel I know the characters - the 'sexual predator' in a white gown, the beautiful woman with the hyperactive child she pushes away - he uses action and physical description (it ends with the boy tugging on his penis and Hua - the predator - laughs)
pg 103-4: great description of Hua's frail old mother
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