Because we are not free to say what we really mean:
蓬头稚子学垂纶， 侧坐莓苔草映身。
路人借问遥招手， 怕得鱼惊不应人。
china
Seeing Writing Where There’s No Writing
There must be a neurological condition where the sufferer thinks that he sees writing even in meaningless patterns, kind of an opposite to alexia.
I sat on the high-speed train from Hefei to Shanghai and stared at the fabric pattern on the back of the seat before me for several minutes, convinced that the grid was filled with Chinese characters that I was on the verge of recognizing.
Moths
Saw these on the campus of USTC.
