Chinese Puzzles

by Theodore Dalrymple (February 2015)

One picture, said Mao Tse-Tung, is worth a thousand words, and in a sense he was right. A thousand words cannot describe adequately your current visual field, or even the tiniest part of it (I don’t think you should even try); but neither can pictures adequately convey what you are able to say in words. We don’t have different faculties for nothing.  more>>>

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  1. “because our telephones work so well our art or architecture must be similarly advanced”

    Our telephones are Chinese. Or at least Korean.

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