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The Water Way
Dr. Marcie’s pool through the ten-foot security gate. A huge, curved teardrop, or half a yin yang, made of gunite and plaster. The clear water shimmers in the California sunlight. Poolside, Shirley the goat chews the cushion of a chaise lounge.
A luxury sedan hums down the street behind me. I grip the iron bars and wait. Unseen birds chirp in the trees; a cool breeze blows. Now I’m up and over, agile as a lynx, but the Tony Llama on my left foot catches the top of the gate. I hang there, midair, long enough to wonder what time Dr. Marcie will be home. I tug at my boot, struggling to dislodge it. Instead, my foot slips out, and I land in a rosemary bush. I limp across the deck to the water. Shirley pauses mid-mastication and stares at me. I reach up to scratch my head at the mystery of it, only to notice my black felt Stetson is missing. Maybe I lost it in the fall? I imagine myself wading into the water and slowly sinking to the bottom, only to realize I’m already there. So I dig a raft out of the shed and slide it into the pool. On the first step, my right boot filling with water, I lie back onto the raft and push myself away from the side toward the deep end. Shirley gives me a tinny bleat. * I once wrote, “Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible.” Have the people forgotten? Did they ever know? Because except for a few Buddhists, they seem to think only of the self and its desires. People are bloated with desire, a many-headed hydra of emptiness and longing.
Far indeed is this from The Way.
“Mr. Tzu,” she says. “Or is it Mr. Lao? Forgive me; I never can get Chinese names right. Anyhow, do come in.” I step into her rectangular office. She sits facing the door in an ergonomic leather swivel chair, light pouring in through an immense window behind her. I can’t see her face. A vanilla candle burns at the corner of her desk. Bookshelves filled with heavy tomes line three walls, floor to ceiling. Between the Persian rugs, the hardwood floors gleam. “Please,” she says, waving me toward a couch near her desk. I step toward it but remain standing. “So you say you’ve lost your way, Mr. Tzu?” I wait and watch. The candle’s syrupy perfume makes me lightheaded. “That’s perfectly natural, Lao. May I call you that?” I blink. “In this day and age, we all lose our way from time to time. If I didn’t have GPS in the Lexus, I’d never find my way home. I’m kidding! Only not. What I mean is, you’re not alone, Lao or Tzu. You’re in good company, meaning 99.9% of Americans. That’s an estimate. But just between you and me, if I had a dime for every celebrity or actor wannabe who wandered in off the street after a three-day bender telling me they’ve lost their way, well, I could play the slots in Vegas for a long, long time.” Dr. Marcie forces a smile, then pivots and crosses her shapely legs. “Incidentally, did Patricia have a chance to review our fee schedule with you before you came in?” I nod, though I have no idea what she’s talking about. “Good, excellent, perfect.” She makes a tent of her hands and stares at the ceiling, as if she’s making calculations. “Have seat,” she says. “Kick back and relax. That’s what this is all about, after all.” I don’t move. Muffled street noise leaks into the room. “Or not,” says Dr. Marcie. “Stand if you like. It’s a little weird, but whatever. Creeps me out, makes it more difficult for me to do my job, which, after all, is to help you. But, really, whatever makes you comfortable.” So much babble. “You don’t say much, do you?” she asks. “To use words but rarely is to be natural.” When I see her again, I say, “I have lost The Way.” “You’ve lost your way,” she says. “The Way.” “Are we going to split hairs? You don’t have many left! Just kidding. Only it’s true, and I mean that in a good way. Makes you look wise. Wizened.” “Are you not a sage to the people?” “Of course, I am. I’m a psychiatrist.” Dr. Marcie turns a copy of my book over and over in her hands. “But it says as much right here in this book you say you wrote,” she says. Then she thumbs through, loses her place, scans with her index finger, then reads: “‘In all probability, Lao Tzu was not a historical figure at all.’ Also: ‘We have no reason to believe Lao Tzu was a real person.’” “Yet here I stand before you. Lao Tzu, philosopher. Author of the Tao te ching.” Dr. Marcie waves her hand as if shooing away a fly. She flips the pages, finds what she’s looking for, and reads: “‘Lao Tzu literally means the old man.’ What do you think of that, Old Man?” “To know yet to think one does not know is best.” “What the heck’s that supposed to mean?” In our next session, I stand in front of Dr. Marcie’s desk. She tries to hide her annoyance. “I’ve been reading your book, Old Man,” she says. “It’s so cryptic I don’t understand most of it, but I think I’ve found your way.” “The Way.” “A way back. For you. To The Way.” I wait and listen. The phone rings. “Excuse me,” says Dr. Marcie. Then, into the receiver, she says, “Yes? Okay, put her on. What is it, Ana? I’m with a client. No, you let her. Yes, you let her. I don’t care if she gnaws your shoes off, Ana. Shirley eats what she wants. Goodbye.” She slams the phone down, takes a breath, and swivels my direction. “Forgive me,” she says. “Goat problems.” “Goat?” “It’s so hard to find good help, don’t you think?” Dr. Marcie brushes the stray hairs out of her face. “Now, where were we?” “The Way.” “Yes, of course.” She takes a drink and clears her throat. She reads, “‘Highest good is like water.’” Her breath smells like Stolichnaya. I nod. “Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes close to The Way.” I nod again and almost smile; I wrote that. Twenty-five hundred years ago, but still. “That’s it,” she says. “Your way back to The Way. Or wherever.” She probably just wants to get rid of me. Without knowing it, though, she may be onto something. “Were I possessed of the least knowledge,” I say, “I would, when walking on The Great Way, fear only paths that lead astray.” Dr. Marcie offers no indication she’s heard me. “Think fast!” she says, tossing my book to me, then slipping around her desk. Ushering me to the door, she says, “Bon voyage, Old Man, and good luck.” She shoves me out. “And don’t worry about my fee for the time being. This is You Time. We’ll settle up later.” * Although I head for the beach, there’s no one in the water. No swimmers, no surfers, no one. Instead, people play volleyball in the sand or ride skateboards and bicycles along the boardwalk. A dozen or more gigantic men bench press huge plates of steel or curl giant dumbbells, their oiled muscles like knotted rope. “Why isn’t anyone in the water?” I ask. The responses vary: “Sharks.” “Tsunamis.” “It’s toxic, man.” The breeze is heavy with the scent of oil, seaweed, and ammonia. A bikini-clad woman on roller skates suggests I try Raging Waters Water Park. I’m not sure I like the sound of it, but I don’t have to travel too far. I give the ticket clerk some currency and make a beeline for the nearest pool. It reeks of industrial-grade chlorine, which burns my eyes even though I keep them clamped shut, but it’s cool and washes away the film of sweat and grime that covers my skin. I dive off the diving boards and tube down the water slides and wonder if this might not be The Way. But what about the entrance fee? I wonder. Also, the concrete and steel and chemicals? The screaming children laughing and whining and peeing in the water? And I witness arguments outside the Tiki Lounge, skirmishes in the line for The Surge, and full-blown physical altercations in the Lazy River. So I relegate myself to the Wave Pool Surf Lagoon, which I hope will be calmer and more relaxing. But as I swim underwater, the edge of my robe lodges itself in a water pump intake, sucking me down to the pool floor. I frantically untangle myself and swim for the surface, gasping for air. Mothers scream and cover their children’s eyes when I emerge from the pool, while their husbands heehaw and point at my pruned, naked flesh. A security detail forces me into an oversized terrycloth robe and escorts me to the front gate. They threaten me with criminal charges and banish me from the park. Forever. * When I first set out, I intend to travel by paddleboat, catamaran, and skiff, kayak, canoe, and outrigger, punt, pirogue, and gondola, sloop, ketch, and yawl, raft, barrel, and inner tube. I face several challenges, including the fact I have no idea where to obtain any of them. People here (not unlike those in ancient China) place a high value on property, and no one offers me a loaner. It wouldn’t matter anyway. Very few of the waterways connect, so I’d be faced with portage after portage. I could never shoulder a yawl. Mostly, I travel by big rig. * I head across the desert, in search of the Colorado River. Nothing but sand and dust and scrub for three-hundred miles. The trucker who gives me a lift, a burly, barrel-chested man with a gray braid down his back, doesn’t say a word the entire time, not even about my terrycloth robe. I’m asleep when he pulls into a giant asphalt parking lot filled with cars and tour buses and RV’s. “Here’s where she starts,” he says. I climb out, and he rumbles away. Tourists swarm, but the focus isn’t on that mighty river. Instead, everyone goggles the giant concrete dam built across the canyon. They snap photos of the massive structure, then go inside to buy souvenir key chains, magnets, and post cards in the gift shop. What do they think? Highest good is like a concrete arch-gravity dam? Sour, I hitch another ride. As we lurch across the bridge, I glimpse a tiny trickle of water in the canyon far below. On the other side, a huge, stagnant lake. I climb out in El Paso, where I pick up the Rio Grande. I’m not sure about the name; I can only assume it used to be a beautiful, fast-moving river. Now it’s sluggish and muddy and smells of sulfur. It takes me forever to get anywhere, especially since I start out on a makeshift stockade fence raft. Before I’m out of El Paso, though, I wise up and borrow (without asking) a little johnboat with a motor. It does the trick. On the starboard side are haggard women hanging laundry, their children running naked across dirt lots or playing in the mud on the bank. On the port side, men in brown uniforms and black SUV’s stand guard, automatic weapons at the ready. They fish out a dozen people attempting to swim from one side to the other before I’ve been on the water an hour. Yet when I make it to a place called Big Bend, I think I might have rediscovered The Way. Although the river’s still murky, the landscape takes my breath away. I float through deep canyons, cliffs towering up on either side of me. The panoramas of nearby mesas and distant mountains, the multicolored striations of geologic time illuminated by the midday sun, are stunning. I refuel and motor on. Just outside of Laredo, the sun dipping into the sky behind me, I’m almost shot. I zip down the middle of the river, an unseen force pulling me toward the Gulf. The port bank is thick with black SUV’s, while on the starboard side, men in black vests and ski masks skulk behind rusty pickups and washer-dryer combos. I can’t tell where the first shot comes from. Rifles explode like fireworks in the night, sending bullets shrieking past my head in the darkness. I was dead wrong about this river, I realize, for The Way of Heaven benefits and does not harm. I kill the engine and duck for cover in the bottom of the boat, which reeks of dead fish and mildew. The firefight intensifies, so I crank the motor and gun it. As soon as I clear the death zone, I land the boat and sprint for the city. * While they’re on my itinerary, and I’ve marked them on the map in blue highlighter, I never make it to the Puget Sound or the Strait of Juan de Fuca. I miss out on the Willamette River and the Columbia River and Multnomah Falls. I don’t see the Great Salt Lake. Likewise, I miss the Missouri River and the Mississippi River and all the Great Lakes. I never lay eyes on the Atlantic Ocean, not even the one time Brad sends me to Atlantic City to promote my book. I’m within striking distance of the Gulf of Mexico, but I hear there’s no point, since it’s a giant ecological disaster, more oil and dispersant than water. * I catch a lift with a trucker heading north. He sports a salt-and-pepper handlebar mustache and cowboy duds: starched Wrangler’s, a gold belt buckle, and a pressed, plaid button-up shirt. His Stetson hangs upside down from the headliner in a hat hanger. I imagine that, down in the floorboard, his feet are shod in armadillo skin boots. The man has style. “You ain’t from these parts,” he says. “Where you headed?” “Just up the road a piece,” I say. It’s an expression I picked up, and it seems to comfort truckers. “Take you far as Austin.” “Wherever’s perfect.” “Well, climb on up if you’re coming.” For the first two hours, he doesn’t say a word. He tunes into a Country & Western station, and we both stare out the windshield into the black void. I try not to wonder why he has a six-inch buck knife in a sheath on his belt. Then, for no discernible reason, he says: “How you doin’ there, Tzu?” “Excuse me?” “You look a little down at the mouth, is all.” “I was almost killed, if that’s what you mean.” “One of those days, huh? Well, a wiser fella than myself once said, Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, why, the bar eats you.” I have no idea what he’s talking about. “That some kind of Eastern thing?” I ask. “Far from it, Tzu.” The cowboy recognizes the next song, Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Tzu.” He turns it up and hums along. I lean against the door and fall asleep. * A woman screaming from the side of the pool. She’s on all fours, slinging water at me with her cupped hand. “Who are you, Señor? Where you come from?” From the other side of the pool, Shirley bleats, then tears off a mouthful of chair cushion. I shade my eyes with my right hand and try to focus. My face feels sunburned, and everything but my shirt and the front of my Wrangler’s is soaked through. The breeze rustles the expertly landscaped foliage and smells of peat moss, chlorine, and money. “The Way that can be spoken of is not the constant Way,” I say. I feel a little drunk. I may be. “Señor,” says the woman, whose name I eventually learn is Ana, “what you doing?” “Wu-wei,” I say, and it’s the truth. “You can’t be here! Not when Dr. Marcie comes.” “But she’s expecting me.” Ana’s uniform is black and white and buttoned up to the throat. She seems to be weighing her options, wondering if any harm could be inflicted with the pool skimmer. “Dr. Marcie say nothing to me.” I pull off my boot, then roll into the water and let myself sink to the bottom. When my feet touch, I push myself back to the surface, emerging into the golden sun as if from a cocoon. I brush water from my eyes, then swim toward Ana. “It’s a surprise,” I say. Ana folds her arms across her chest. She looks down at me like I’m an insect she’s about to squash. “You are not so smart.” I shield my eyes from the sun, but I still can’t see her face. “If is surprise, how she can expect?” she says. She smells like wood polish and corn meal. “If she expect, how is surprise?” I push away from the wall and float on my back, gazing up into the azure emptiness. “Mystery upon mystery,” I say. “The gateway of the manifold secrets.” “You want I call police?” Shirley rears and bucks, knocking over a small patio table, her hooves clopping against the concrete pool decking. * At Take Two, a vintage store on Guadalupe and 32nd, I browse for blue jeans and boots. A twenty-something with long hair and a bushy beard, dressed only in a serape, cut-offs, and sandals, strikes up a conversation. I think he works here. “Need any help?” I tell him what I’m after. He points me to a rack of Western shirts with pearly snaps, multicolored embroidery, and horseshoe pockets. He watches me for a couple of minutes, then says: “You look familiar, man. What’s your name?” “The name that can be named is not the constant name.” “Huh,” he says, scratching his beard. “That’s deep. You’re one of those Eastern philosopher dudes, right?” “I seek The Way.” “I know the city pretty well. Maybe I could help?” I explain my quest and what it means. I don’t know why. He suggests I start a blog. “To get the word out,” he says. “I’m interested in your travels, and I know a lot of other people would be, too. We’re all on the same journey, man.” After I make my purchases, the bearded man, whose name is Stevie, sets the whole thing up for me on his laptop in the office. We choose a style and layout, even a title: The Water Way. He shows me how to access the blog no matter where I am and tells me the kinds of things people might want to read. He suggests I start at the beginning of my travels and write something about each place I’ve been. “That all make sense?” he asks. I nod. He pats me on the shoulder and goes back up to the front. I think about my travels, considering what might be said of them. I have to hunt-and-peck on the keyboard, but eventually I manage to write: One who excels in traveling leaves no wheel tracks. I’m still at the motel on South Congress when Brad shows up. It’s taking me much longer than I anticipated to formulate the travel narratives Stevie says will interest my readers. I’m more inclined to verse, riddles, metaphors. So I mull and write, word by word, sentence by sentence. It’s much more difficult than I expected. But I post enough entries to attract Brad’s attention. He comes pounding on my door late one night while I’m playing with the Magic Fingers. I’ve just plugged my coin when I hear him outside: “Low Sue,” he says. “Open up! We have business.” He’s a slight man in his late-forties, with short hair and a diamond stud in his right ear. He introduces himself as a “talent agent” and promises to make me a star. “I do not seek fame or fortune,” I say, easing back against the headboard. “I seek The Way.” “Unbelievable!” He gives me an awkward pat on the thigh. “And I love the cowboy getup. Whole East-meets-West shtick. People are gonna eat you up!” I’m at a loss. The bed vibrates and squeaks. The room is too warm. Brad examines the lamp shade and bedspread and framed black-and-whites on the walls. He pretends to be impressed. His gold pinky ring catches the dull yellow light. “Dr. Marcie showed me your book,” he says. “You’re in therapy, too?” He chuckles. “We used to be married.” “Then why do you call her Dr. Marcie?” “That’s her name.” The Magic Fingers machine grinds away. Brad fiddles with his pinky ring, grinning down at me. “Here’s the situation,” he says. “You owe Dr. Marcie big bucks, right? I can help you with that. All you have to do is go on being yourself, plus listen to me and follow my advice. I already have a new name in mind: L. T. Turner. What do you think?” I say nothing. Brad doesn’t need encouragement, explaining his vision at great length. When I begin to nod off, he slips another quarter into the Magic Fingers, which jolts me awake. And he goes on talking well into the night, hands gesticulating, eyes gleaming, drowning me in words I no longer care about or understand. “So?” he asks. “What do you think?” “One who knows does not speak,” I say. “One who speaks does not know.” Brad’s eyes go wide with wonder. “That’s exactly what I’m talking about!” He adjusts his earring, then rubs his hands together. “You keep that up, and we’ll make a killing.” I kick my feet up onto the bed, lean back against the pillows, and fold my arms behind my head, waiting for him to leave. “I’ll make the calls first thing tomorrow, set the wheels in motion. ’Kay?” “The Way never acts,” I say, “yet nothing is left undone.” Neon light pours in through the open door. Brad points at me and winks. “Big Star, Mr. Sue, mark my words.” The bed groans and shudders beneath me, then goes still. Brad’s true to his word. He has my book redesigned and reprinted, with my face on the cover, and he sends me out on the lecture circuit. I continue writing my blog; Brad insists. “It’s free publicity,” he says, “helps with buzz.” He clearly knows his business because the book takes off, and hundreds, maybe thousands of people come out to hear me speak. At a two-hour lecture, I might say: “Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” No one seems to mind. Do they, too, seek The Way? In places like Dayton, Lansing, and Springfield, I sell and sell. Maybe not as much as Brad hopes for, but I have plenty to pay Dr. Marcie’s bill. Only when I hint at dropping the lecture tour, Brad acts as if I’ve suggested we sell his daughter into prostitution. He doesn’t even have a daughter. “You can’t quit now, Low Sue. You won’t. That’s not how it’s done.” So I wind up in Terre Haute, Topeka, and Lincoln, peddling my wares. But my audiences dwindle right along with my enthusiasm for the project. Most of these people probably never even read the book. In the beginning, that sad fact didn’t matter to me, but now I find it disheartening. Depressing, even. There’s no point to it anymore. I still haven’t found my way back to The Way; how can I encourage others to seek it? A pep talk one Sunday afternoon before a lecture. Brad keeps dipping a tiny spoon into a bag of white powder, then sniffing it. I’ve never seen this before. I watch him as he speaks a mile a minute, not listening to a single word. When he lifts the tiny spoon from the bag again, I grab his hand and guide it to my nose. When he resists, locking his arm, his face a knot of disapproval, I lean over and sniff the powder. Brad relaxes and says, “This is new.” He licks an index finger, dips it in the bag, rubs it over his gums, top and bottom, then smacks. “At least it will give you a lift,” he says. The crowds begin to swell. I carry my own bags of white powder now, which don’t come cheap, and my demeanor has changed. Although my delivery might be different—I speed-talk and tell lots of jokes—the message is still the same. The book sells out; Brad convinces the publishers to print more. We play Las Vegas and knock ’em dead three Sundays running. That’s when Brad institutes The Seminar and finagles a regular gig for me at Caesar’s Palace. Tickets sell out, even when Brad doubles, then triples the price. I develop a powerful affinity for single-malt scotch. Apparently, whiskey and white powder are volatile bedfellows. One time I wake up in a hot tub at one of the fancier hotels, naked, surrounded by three beautiful young women. From his third-floor balcony, a man in nothing but a sumo wrestler’s diaper yells, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! Right, Old Man?” Another time, I come to out in the desert among the snakes and scorpions, curled up in the shade of a Joshua tree. It’s the middle of the afternoon. Luckily, it’s only a ten-minute stumble to the city limits. All Brad says is, “Careful, Sue.” I don’t eat or sleep much, so I’m not exactly surprised when I pass out, mid-sentence, during one of my seminars. A couple of meaty Midwesterners revive me with slaps and ice water before anyone calls the paramedics. I try to carry on, but, oddly, Brad won’t let me. “This isn’t about today,” he says. “It’s about the future.” I spend the afternoon in my suite flipping through TV stations and sipping single-malt. I do my utmost to attain emptiness, but it’s not the right kind. I cannot hold firmly to stillness for more than a three-minute stretch. Yet I haven’t forgotten: To retire when the task is accomplished is The Way of Heaven. So when I wake up in the back of a pickup hurtling down the highway in the middle of the night, I’m almost relieved. I have no idea who’s driving or where we’re going, but does it make a difference? I’ve left Vegas and Brad and, most importantly, L. T. Turner far behind. I gaze up into the star-filled, desert sky. I reach out to the Supreme Palace Enclosure and White Tiger of the West; I can almost touch them. I’m in and out of consciousness as we bump and swerve along the highway. Time passes. Soon the glow of spotlights and searchlights outshines the stars, and the sky goes hazy. The air reeks of exhaust, industrial waste, and abandoned dreams. Welcome to the City of Angels. * I’m afloat on my raft in the pool when Dr. Marcie comes home. Ana trails behind her, saying, “Very sorry, Señora” as they step out the back door. I sip from the fruit smoothie I convinced Ana to bring me. Shirley the goat munches on the bougainvillea. Dr. Marcie stops at the edge of the pool deck, hands on her hips, and glares at me. “What do you think you’re doing?” “Wu-wei,” I say. “What?” she says. “Where?” “I don’t know what you’re asking.” “You fornicate in my pool shed with some Chinese tramp? This is how you repay me?” “You misunderstand, Dr. Marcie. Wu-wei is action that requires no action.” I study her expression; she’s impossible to read. “You might call it ‘inaction.’” “I always took you for a lazy bum.” She watches Shirley climb up on a chaise lounge and begin decimating the crepe myrtles. “Why aren’t you on tour?” I take a drink of smoothie. “Tour’s over.” “Does Brad know about this?” Before I can respond, not that I intend to, sirens wail in the street out front. Soon a mob of police crash through the house and over the fence. “Thank you, officers. Everything’s fine here. Just a misunderstanding.” An older man with a mustache and pot belly says, “A Ms. Ana Rodriguez, domestic, reported an intruder.” Ana stands by the back door, her head down. “Do you know this man?” Dr. Marcie’s eyes light up with possibility. I’m convinced she’s going to have me arrested when she says, “Yes, Sergeant. He’s a client—a, uh, patient. You know, a friend.” “Uh-huh.” “I apologize for the inconvenience,” she says. “It won’t happen again, I assure you.” “Sir,” he says, pencil point to notebook, “could I get your name, please?” “Don’t you recognize him?” says Dr. Marcie. “That’s L. T. Turner.” “The self-help guru? You gotta be shittin’ me! ’Scuse my French.” “The one and only,” she says. “It’s an honor and a privilege,” says the sergeant. “I read your book twice! Would’ve attended your seminar, too, if it weren’t for the missus.” I wave him away and slurp my smoothie. “He’s very grateful,” Dr. Marcie says. “We both are.” As the sergeant rounds up his men, Shirley bucks and bleats. When they’re gone, Dr. Marcie dismisses Ana, possibly for good, then steps around the pool and takes a seat on a chaise lounge. Shirley comes over and Dr. Marcie cradles the young goat in her lap. “Maybe you should have told me?” I suggest. She strokes Shirley’s head and ignores me. “What you had in mind, I mean.” “There was no plan, Old Man. I mentioned you to Brad, then he saw your blog. It’s just the way things worked out.” Dr. Marcie watches Shirley meander off toward the hydrangeas. “Only it sounds like things didn’t work out.” “I am no guru. But I needed to pay your fees.” “Can you?” I stare at my pruned fingers. “No.” We listen to the crickets chirp and the jets scream. “Well,” she says, “did you find your way?” “I didn’t think so, until I came here.” “To Beverly Hills?” She looks around, her gaze taking in the palatial homes and well-manicured lawns. “I find that hard to believe.” I suck the last of my smoothie through the straw. Shirley glances up when she hears the gurgling sound and lets out a loud bleat. Then I toss the cup onto the pool deck; the breeze catches it and rakes it across the concrete into the grass. I gaze up into the sky, which is slowly darkening to indigo; the night’s first stars are out, the Purple Forbidden Enclosure and Azure Dragon of the East. I fold my arms behind my head and say: “Without stirring abroad one can know the whole world. Without looking out the window one can see The Way of Heaven.”
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