Other People’s Thoughts This is the fifty first chapter in Other People’s Thoughts, a China Heritage series inspired by a compilation of quotations put together by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans), one of our Ancestors, during his reading life.… Read

Spectres & Souls   … we need a way to mute America. Why? Because America has no chill. … America insists that you bear witness to it tripping on its dick and slamming its face into an uncountable row of scalding hot pies.… Read

Hong Kong Apostasy 義人得生
惡人必亡   The quelling of the Umbrella Movement in 2014 marked the beginning of the end of Hong Kong’s unique place in the Chinese world. Ten years later, on 19 November 2024, that process reached its inevitable denouement.… Read

Spectres & Souls 臥薪嘗膽 This is bullcrap, dude!
Herbert Garrison: Now children, it’s not that bad. There’s plenty of great new mascots on the sheet to chose from. The Hurricanes, the Blizzards, the Redskins, the Indians…
Wendy: But aren’t Indians and Redskins just as offensive?… Read

Spectres & Souls 梟雄   At the center of what I know is the realization and the acceptance of the certainty that never in my lifetime will I live again in the world in which I was born and grew to maturity.… Read

Spectres & Souls 患得患失   The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’… Read