‘”Welcome to Fletcher Island! This is the isle where the wildest fantasies will come true! Be a hero for one day, find the spouse of your dreams, or discover fabulous treasures!” The guide, an elegant man in a white costume, welcomes the newcomers while native girls offer garlands of flowers and motion the tourists toward open coaches. “Please come and visit our estates, take a tour on our flying carpets, and enjoy your time at the many inns on the beach! Welcome to Fletcher Island!”’
This is so cool – a market in Kunming is using my book as an ad. Yunnanese using an Englishman’s book to sell local cheese to other Yunnanese. I couldn’t be more proud!
Also … A bookshop in Kunming (大象) is asking various authors to list their favourite books. I’m working on mine, but here’s my sister’s (a botanist) and my dad’s (a computer programmer):
(more…)The Feed is embedded wetware which lets you access anything online, anytime. And your function, having been granted this incredible gift, is to consume.
‘The other was a good sale at Weatherbee & Crotch, which, by this time, I had probably missed. It was too bad, because I would have like to have been able to take the opportunity to check out these great bargains, for example, they had a trim-shirt with side pockets that I thought I probably would have bought, except it only came in sand, persimmon, and vetch.’
