Dubai, Oct 20

We’ve got a new sign on our box written in Cantonese. Any good narrative starts in China. ‘Always go through China!’ is the new imperative to any journey. As we carried it through the densely crowded streets of Hong Kong, people craned their necks to read the words. Only Westerners who knew Cantonese would ask questions. We made quite a circus in the streets with the two merry locals, Spring and Benjamin, helping us out.After a day in Dubai -- still processing impressions from Los Angeles and Hong Kong. The mind is tardy, always in the past, being thrown by an alien self into the future. In Los Angeles the perspective was that of the framer. Now the perspective is that of the framed. But we’re still only in the preamble.