On a popular wristwatch a painted image of Mao Zedong waved his hand jerkily with every second. ‘He is not greeting you,’ the vendor grinned. ‘He is saying goodbye.’
From Colin Thubron’s excellent Shadow of the Silk Road.
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I just finished Thubron’s book, and agree that it is excellent.
This is the watch (http://www.kaylorimports.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=459)
I am tempted to get one but the band is so ugly… and it is a wind-up watch so if I forget winding it up, Chairman Mao won’t bid me goodbye.
That watch is for sale *everywhere* you might visit as a westerner. Everywhere. After a while I began to think that Mao hadn’t died, he had just disaggregated and will forever keep (new, improved, capitalist) time in China.
effell, that was pretty damn funny. At least I am understood.
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