What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts.  The danger is grayout.

That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime&#39;s strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

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