"Soldiers of heaven hold the sky" "The morning breaks and shadows fly" "Follow the orders of the poor" "Your master is the laborer who rules the world with truth and grace" "Deal with him justly, face to face" "Pay a fair price for all you buy" "Pay to replace what you destroy" "Divide the landlord's property" "Take nothing from the tenantry" "Do not mistreat the captive foe" "Respect women, it is their due" "Replace doors when you leave a house" "Roll up straw matting after use" "The people are the heroes now Behemoth pulls the peasant's plow" "The people are the heroes now Behemoth pulls the peasant's plow" "When we look up, the fields are white" "The fields are white With harvest in the morning light" "And mountain ranges one by one" "Rise red beneath the harvest moon" "And mountain ranges one by one" "Rise red beneath the harvest moon" "When we look up, mountain ranges rise beneath the moon and fields are white" "The people are the heroes now Behemoth pulls the peasant's plow" "Your flight was smooth, I hope?" "Oh, yes, smoother than usual." "I guess." "Yes, it was very pleasant." "We stopped in Hawaii for a day and Guam, to catch up on the time." "It's easier that way." "The Prime Minister knows about that." "He is such a traveler." "No, not I but as a traveler come home for good to China one for whom all travel is a penance now I am most proud to welcome you." "News!" "News has a kind of mystery:" "When I shook hands with Chou En-lai on this bare field outside Peking just now, the whole world was listening." "And though we spoke quietly the eyes and ears of history caught every gesture and every word, transforming us, as we transfixed made history!" "As we made history." "The eyes and ears of history." "As we made history." "On our flight over from Shanghai the countryside looked drab and gray." ""Brueghel," Pat said." ""We came in peace for all mankind," I said and I was put in mind of our Apollo astronauts simp|y achieving a great human dream." "We live in an unsettled time." "Who are our enemies?" "Who are our friends?" "The Eastern Hemisphere beckoned to us and we have flown east of the sun, west of the moon across an ocean of distrust filled with the bodies of our lost;" "the earth's Sea of Tranquility." "News!" "It's prime time in the U.S.A" "It's yesterday night." "They watch us now the three main networks' colors glow livid through drapes onto the lawn." "Dishes are washed and homework done, the dog and grandma fall asleep a car roars past playing loud pop, is gone." "As I look down the road I know America is good at heart." "An old cold warrior piloting towards an unknown shore through shoals." "The rats begin to chew the sheets." "There's murmuring down below." "Now there's ingratitude!" "My hand is steady as a rock." "A sound like mourning doves reaches my ears nobody is a friend of ours." "The nation's heartland skips a beat as our hands shield the spinning globe from the flame-throwers of the mob." "We must press on." "We know we want" "Mister President." "Mister President." "What?" "Oh, yes." "I can't talk very well." "My throat- l'm nearly speechless with delight just to be here." "We're even then." "That is the right way to begin." "Our common old friend, Chiang Kai-shek, with all his virtues would not look too kindly on all of this." "We seem to be beneath the likes of him." "You've seen his latest speech?" "You bet." "It was a scorcher." "Still, he's spit into the wind before, and will again." "That puts it into scale." "You shouldn't despise Chiang." "No fear of that." "We've followed his career for generations." "There's not much beneath our notice." "We will touch on this in our communiqué." "Ah, the philosopher!" "I see that Paris can spare you then." "The Chairman may be gratified to hear he's read at Harvard." "I assign all four volumes." "Those books of mine aren't anything." "Incorporate their words within a people's thought as p0Of men's common sense and try their strength on women's nerves, then say they live." "The Chairman's books enthralled a nation, and have changed the world." "I could not change it." "I'd be glad to think that in the neighborhood of Peking something will remain." "Let us turn our talk towards Taiwan, Vietnam and the problems there, Japan" "Save that for the Premier." "My business is philosophy." "Now Doctor Kissinger..." "Who me?" "...has made his reputation in foreign affairs." "My right hand man." "You'd never think to look at him that he's James Bond." "And all the time he's doing undercover work." "I had a cover." "In the dark all diplomats are gray." "Or gris when their work takes them to Paris." "I pull the wool over their" "Stop!" "He pulls the wool over their lap." "He's a consummate diplomat." "Girls think he's lukewarm when he's hot." "You also daily with your girls?" "His girls, not mine." "He never tells." "And this is an election year." "You know we'll meet with your confrere the Democrat candidate if he should win." "That is a fate we hope you won't have to endure." "I'd like to make another trip as President." "You've got my vote." "I back the man who's on the right." "Who's in the right you mean." "No, no." "What they put forward we put through." "I like right-wingers:" "Nixon, Heath" "De Gaulle." "No, not de Gaulle." "I'm loath to file him in that pigeonhole." "But Germany's another tale." "We've more than once led the right wing forward while textbook cadres swung back into goose-step, home at last." "How your most rigid theorist revises as he goes along!" "Now you're referring to Wang Ming, Chiang, Chang Kuo-tao and Li Li-san." "I spoke generally." "The line we take now is a paradox." "Among the followers of Marx the extreme left, the doctrinaire tend to be fascist." "And the far right?" "True Marxism is called that by the extreme left." "Occasionally the true left calls a spade a spade and tells the left it's right." "You've said that there's a certain well-known tree that grows from nothing in a day." "Lives only as a sapling, dies just at its prime when good men raise it as their idol." "Not the cross?" "The Liberty Tree." "Let it pass." "It was a riddle, not a test." "The revolution does not last." "II is duration" "The regime survives in that, and not in time." "While it is young in us it lives." "We can save it, it never saves." "And yours will last a thousand years." "Founders come first, then profiteers." "Capitalists?" "Fishers of men." "An organized oblivion." "The crane" "An organized oblivion." "Let us not be misled." "An organized oblivion." "The Yellow Crane has flown abroad." "Think of what we've lost and gained since forty-nine." "The current trend suggests that China's future might" "Might break the Futures Market." "That would be a break." "No doubt our plunge into the New York Stock Exchange will line some pockets here and there." "Will these investments be secure?" "No." "Not precisely." "There's the catch." "You don't want China to be rich." "You want to bring your boys back home." "What if we do?" "Is that a crime?" "Our armies do not go abroad." "Why should they'?" "We have all we need." "New missionaries, businesslike, survey the field and then attack promise to change our rice to bread, and wash us in our brothers' blood and crucify us on a cross of usury." "After them come the Green Berets insuring their securities." "Where is the Chinese people's faith?" "The people's faith?" "Another myth to sell bonds." "It's worked well for you." "The people are determined to divide the land to divide the land to make it whole." "Piecing the broken Golden Bowl the world to come has come, is theirs." "We cried "Long live the Ancestors!" once." "It's "Long live the Living!" now." "History holds her breath." "The people are determined to divide the land and make it whole." "We know the great silent majority will bide its time." "There you've got me." "I'm lost." "I'm lost." "The Chairman means the dead." "Confucius" "The Chairman means the dead." "We no longer need Confucius." "Let him rot— no curse" "Words decompose to feed their source" "Old leaves absorbed into the tree to grow again as branches." "They sprang from the land, they are alike its food and dung." "Upon a rock you may well build your tomb but give us the earth, and we'll dig a grave." "A hundred years, and ears may press hard to the ground to hear his voice." "Platonic men freed from the caves of Pao An want to spend their lives in the daylight want to hear the sound of industry borne on the wind." "The plow breaking the furrow, cloth pierced by the needle giant earth-movers, and these men want to work and not turn back dazzled, to the dark" "...echoes, shadows, and chains." "Such men will drive away the Yellow Crane at last, to harness the Yangtze." "Another generation may turn up Confucius' China Guard waiting in bunkers for their lord." "Like the Ming Tombs." "I think this leap fonrvard to light is the first step of all our youth of all nations' youth." "Our duty is to show them both their future and our past the fire and the noon glare." "How they inspire our poor dry bones put us in mind of our forgotten dreams!" "We send children on our crusades we bring children our countries, right or wrong." "Then we retire." "Fathers and sons, let usjoin hands make peace for once." "Fathers and sons, let us join hands make peace for once." "History is our mother, we best do her honor this way." "History is a dirty sow." "If we by chance escape her maw she overlies us." "That's true, sure and yet we still must seize the hour and seize the day." "You overlook the fact that hands are raised to strike hands are stretched out to seize their kill." "Here where we stand, beyond the pale your outstretched hand, the Russian's wave, appear ambiguous." "Forgive my bluntness." "I'm growing old and soft, and won't demand your overthrow." "Your life is known to all." "It's a relief to think I may be spared." "I thought you might be overwhelmed!" "My feet are firmly planted on the ground, like yours like you I take my stand among poor people." "We can talk." "Six Crises isn't a bad book." "He reads too much." "Ah, who can say?" "Has study given Chairman Mao an iron constitution?" "No." "Founders come first then profiteers." "The night is young." "Along, long trail unwinding towards my dreams..." "The night is young." "...uphill right to the very last frontier, and then we're home." "The night is young." "I love you dear." "You must be worn out." "No, I washed and rested, so I feel refreshed." "But you" "This air agrees with me." "Wish we could send some to D.C." "I've never felt so good." "I saw a snow moon on our way here." "Snow!" "Snow over China!" "Think of that!" "It makes me shiver." "Just you wait till the toasting starts." "Between the booze and praise you'll warm up then." "It may go to my head." "And I might be a Russian spy." "Seriously" "You saw the moon in clouds and forecast snow." "Go on." "Be a peacemaker, Premier Chou." "All Mrs. Nixon says is true enough." "The pressure's falling fast." "I feel it in my bones." "At least this Great Hall of the People stands like a fortress against the winds it stands against the winds whatever their direction." "Yet the west wind heralds spring." "I doubt that spring has come." "Take a deep breath and you can taste it." "It's the truth." "Although there's more snow still to fall the spring's as good as here." "Meanwhile we sit together in the cold." "Huddled for warmth you mean?" "But could we not take some encouragement from this appearance of détente'?" "He can't hear you." "He's miles away." "A Frenchman once observed to me..." ""At the edge of the Rubicon men don't go fishing."" "I know one statesman who thinks a fishing trip will help him land the Great White Hope." "Intelligence is no bad thing." "It's Henry's trump card." "This stuffs strong poison." "A universal cure, or so we call it over here." "Gam boil" "Gam boil" "Ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, we have begun to celebrate the different ways that led us to this mountain pass this summit where we stand." "Look down and think what we have undergone." "Future and past lie far below half-visible." "We marvel now that we survived those battles took those shifting paths, blasted that rock to lay those rails." "Through the cold night uncompromising lines of thought attempted to find common ground where their militias might contend confident that the day would come for shadow-boxers to strike home." "We saw by the first light of dawn the outlined cities of the plain and see them still surrounded by the pastures of their tenantry." "On land we have not taken yet innumerable blades of wheat salute the sun." "Our children race downhill unflustered into peace." "We will not sow their fields with salt or burn their standing crop." "We built these terraces for them alone." "The virtuous American and the Chinese make manifest their destinies in time." "We toast that endless province whose frontier we occupy from hour to hour." "Holding in perpetuity the ground our people won today from vision to inheritance." "All patriots were brothers once:" "Let us drink to the time when they shall be brothers again." "Gam boil" "Gam boil" "Mister Premier...distinguished guests I have attended many feasts but never have I so enjoyed a dinner nor have I heard played better the music that I love outside America." "I move a vote of thanks to one and all whose efforts made this possible." "No one who heard could but admire your eloquent remarks, Premier and millions more hear what we say through satellite technology than ever heard a public speech before." "No one is out of touch." "Telecommunication has broadcast your message into space." "Yet soon our words won't be recalled while what we do can change the world." "We have at times been enemies, we still have differences, God knows." "But let us, in these next five days, start along march on new highways in different lanes, but parallel and heading towards a single goal." "The world watches and listens." "We must seize the hour." "We must seize the hour and seize the day." "Cheers!" "This is the hour!" "—Your health. —And yours." "To Doctor Kissinger!" "New friends and present company!" "—To Chairman Mao!" "—The U.S.A.!" "Cheers!" "Have you forgotten Washington?" "Washington's birthday!" "Cheers!" "Everyone listen!" "Listen!" "Just let me say one thing." "I opposed China." "I was wrong." "I was wrong." "Bottoms up, Mister President." "What did you say, Sweetheart?" "I can't catch every word in all this noise." ""America the Beautiful"" "You won't believe how moved I am." "The Chinese people are renowned." "We have at times been enemies." "We must broadcast seeds of goodwill." "—Spring is here." "I love you dear." "—It's like a dream." "Comrades and friends, brothers again!" "—To Chairman Mao!" "The U.S.A.!" "—You won't believe how moved I am." "I don't daydream and don't look back." "In this world you can't count on luck." "I think what is to be will be in spite of us." "I treat each day like Christmas." "I think what is to be will be in spite of us." "I treat each day like Christmas." "Never have I cared for trivialities." "Good Lord!" "Trivial things are not for me." "Good Lord!" "I come from a poor family." "I treat each day like Christmas." "I come from a poor family." "Trivial things are not for me." "Trivialities are not for me." "Look down...." "Look down at the earth, down from the north;" "the snow storm comes." "Mile after mile on each side of the ice-locked wall vanishes." "Far as you can see, you cannot see the land or sky." "This little elephant in glass brings back so many memories." "The symbol of our party, prize of our success." "Our sacred cow surrounded by blind Brahmins slow muscle—bound, well-dressed, half-awake with Liberty upon her back." "Tell me, is it one of a kind?" "It has been carefully designed by workers in our factory." "They can make hundreds every day." "Wonderful!" "Look down, look down at the earth a living current moves beneath rivers caught in the hand of death." "Rivers caught in the hand of death." "Serpentine mountains cross the plain to bask in an uncertain sun and elephantine hills rejoice, advancing towards a sky of ice." "This country is so beautiful;" "one fine day you will see it all." "This is the People's Clinic." "Ouch!" "I think it's sort of rude to watch." ""Do not distress yourself," she begs." "She will get well." "Come see the pigs!" "Pig. pig. pig. pig. pig. pig" "I once raised a red-ribbon boar." "Do you think you could scratch his ear?" "And how was that?" "Just fine." "Thank you." "Here are some children having fun." "The children in the U.S.A all say hello." "I used to be a teacher many years ago and now I'm here to learn from you." "This is prophetic!" "I foresee a time will come when luxury dissolves into the atmosphere like a perfume and everywhere the simple virtues root and branch and leaf and flower." "And on that bench there we'll relax and taste the fruit of all our actions." "Why regret life which is so much like a dream?" "Let the eternal plan resume." "In the bedroom communities let us be taken by surprise." "Let the band play on and on." "Let the stand-up comedian finish his act |et Gypsy Rose kick off her high-heeled party shoes." "Let interested businessmen speculate further |et routine dull the edge of mortality." "Let days grow imperceptibly longer let the sun set in cloud |et lonely drivers on the road pull over for a bite to eat let the farmer switch on the light over the porch..." "...|et passersby look in at the large family around the table let them pass." "Let the expression on the face of the Statue of Liberty change just a little let her see what lies inland." "Across the plain one man is marching an Unknown Soldier has risen from his tomb let him be recognized at home." "The Prodigal." "Give him his share:" "The eagle nailed to the barn door." "Let him be quick." "The sirens wail as bride and groom kiss through the veil." "Bless this union with all its might." "Bless this union." "Let it remain inviolate." "Let it remain inviolate." "At last the weather's warming up." "Look!" "The sky's clear now." "—Watch your step." "—I said it would, remember?" "Please Mrs. Nixon...." "Oh, yes." "And look!" "Another elephant!" "Why hello, Jumbo!" "I was meant to come here." "What a lovely park!" "Time for a picnic?" "They could work stone in those days." "Labor was cheap." "Men dug their own graves." "They rose up like statues covered in the dust of their creation..." "Men like these behold each revolution of the world." "Swimming through space as fish swim through the sea." "Resting in currents." "Though they got two bowls of rice a day, the salt was black." "They drank white tea." "It sounds like you remember them." "We should go back now." "What a shame!" "Young as we are we expect fear every year more of us bow beneath the shadow of the next blow." "Down on all fours our grandfathers swallow abuse as if by choice." "The humble flesh kisses the lash." "Spit and polish, polish and spit blacken that boot and they submit embrace the foot, cushion the kick." "Rabbit and snake dance cheek to cheek." "We are awake, we know these matters how the poor debtors still sell their daughters how in the drought men still grow fat on the profit won grain by grain from other men caught in the famine who trade their oxen for a day's ration; then the plow goes then tools, then clothes, at last the land." "Where is he bound, naked and stunned?" "Hand over hand he drags his skin." "Look at him grin he can't complain." "Look at that thing that was his tongue." "Look at that thing he won't be long." "Look at that thing that was his tongue." "He won't be long." "Oh, what a day I thought I'd die!" "That luscious thigh, that swelling breast." "Scented and greased, a sacrifice running with juice at my caress." "She was so hot I was hard-put to be polite when the first cut... —Come on you slut!" " ...when the first cut scored her brown skin, I started in." "Man upon hen!" "She was so hot!" "I was hard-put to be polite." "How thin you are!" "If every scar on this poor back could only speak these walls would crack this thick-walled heart cast in the dirt would raise the cry "Hate Tyranny!"" "The land outside this cell is red running with blood, hot in the sun we have not seen not until now." "Now let me through!" "Doesn't he look like you-know-who!" "Can't find the path- Must find the path" "Whip!" "Whip!" "Whip!" "Whip her to death!" "They can't do that!" "It's just a play." "She'll get up afterwards, you'll see." "Easy there, Hon." "Whip her to death!" "It's terrible!" "I hate you both!" "—Make them stop, make them stop!" "Sweetheart, leave them alone." "You might get hurt." "This this, this is the fate of all who set small against great." "Leave it to rot." "Thank God you came." "Just look at this!" "Poor thing!" "It's simply barbarous!" ""Whip her to death!" he said." "I'd like to give his God-damned whip a crack!" "Oh, Dick!" "You're sopping!" "Flesh rebels the body pulls those inflamed souls that mark its trials into the war." "Arm this soldier!" "Rise up in arms!" "Tropical storms uproot the palms ending their sway." "The Red Army shows us the way." "From the scorched earth people step forth over dead wood and over the dead." "Over dead wood and over the dead." "Follow their lead." "The hand grenade beats in the chest let the heart burst let the clenched fist strike the first blow for Chairman Mao and overthrow the tyrant, and share out the land." "Share out the land, unclench the fist, let the heart burst and sow broadcast the dragon's teeth your kin and kith seed of your seed your flesh and blood." "I have my brief, I flatter myself, I know my man." "The sine qua non, the face on the coin, you see what I mean?" "The empire builder, the man with his shoulder against the roulette wheel:" "He stands like a stone wall and stinks of success." "I'm here to liaise with the backroom boys who know how to live." "And me, !" "contrive to catch a few crumbs" "The ringleaders' names the gist of their schemes—" "Loose change." "Here friend, something for you." "You're talking like a real pro." "It seems so strange to take revenge after so long to find the wrong can be undone." "The silent gun warms in my hand salving the wound made by the men it will gun down." "All in good time I shall kill them, yes, every one; revenge is mine." "That is your cue." "She's started shooting, Dick." "I know." "What are you gaping at'?" "No!" "Oh!" "No!" "Oh!" "Forward Red Troupe!" "Annihilate this tyrant and his running dogs!" "Throw off those stupid rags!" "Advance and fire!" "Fix bayonets!" "The worms are hungry!" "Must the fruits of victory rot on the vine?" "Are you one of us?" "You are what you choose." "Your paradise begins and ends in open wounds and self-abuse where your heart is." "Your sacred heart is rotten meat your little treasure, your precious flower, your sweet revenge." "Nothing can change without discipline." "Nothing." "Give me that gun." "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung who raised the weak above the strong." "When I appear the people hang...." "When I appear the people hang upon my words and for his sake whose wreaths are heavy round my neck I speak according to the book." "When did the Chinese people last expose its daughters?" "At the breast of history I sucked and pissed thoughtless and heartless, red and blind I cut my teeth upon the land and when I walked my feet were bound on revolution." "Let me be a grain of sand in heaven's eye and I shall taste eternal joy." "Let me be a grain of sand and I shall taste eternal joy." "Let me be a grain of sand in heaven's eye and I shall taste eternal joy." "Joy!" "Joy!" "JOY!" "Joy!" "Joy!" "JOY!" "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung who raised the weak above the strong." "When I appear the people hang...." "When I appear the people hang upon my words and for his sake whose wreaths are heavy round my neck I speak according to the book." "I speak according to the book." "I speak according to the book." "Some men you cannot satisfy." "That's what I tell them." "They can't say you didn't tell them." "It's no good." "All that I say is misconstrued." "Your lipstick's crooked." "Is it?" "Oh." "There isn't much that I can do, is there?" "Who's seen my handkerchief?" "Please accept mine." "I've heard enough." "Who chose these numbers?" "All of us." "Doesn't she like the people's choice?" "Now for a solo on the spoons." "I like it when they play our tunes." "This should be better." "Hit it, boys!" "Oh, California!" "Hold me close." "Hold me close." "I am no one." "I am no one." "We fight, we die, and if we do not fight, we die." "That's how it goes." "I am unknown." "Give me a cigarette." "Come down." "Give me your hand, old man." "Why not?" "And to what end?" "Tell me." "Premier, please where's the toilet?" "Through that door." "Excuse me for one moment, please." "We saw our parents' nakedness." "Rivers of blood will be required to cover them." "I squeezed your paycheck till it screamed there was the rent, there were those damned slipcovers and the groceries." "You made that place a home." "That place was heaven next to this." "We'll teach these motherfuckers how to dance." "We did this once before." "Oh?" "When?" "It was the time that tasty little starlet came to infiltrate my headquarters." "Goon!" "What did she call herself?" "Lan P'ing?" "You named me." "I was very young." "I thank my lucky stars I kept those letters you wrote from the Pacific." "What an idealist." "There was so much I couldn't tell." "What an idealist." "You read my mind." "A bankrupt people repossessed the ciphers of its history and not one character could say whether the war was over yet or if they'd written off the debt." "In Yenan, we were just boys." "Revolution is a boys' game." "I have grown old and done no more work than a child." "There was so much I could not tell." "Such as?" "Sitting around the radio with the enlisted men I knew my time had come." "The signal cleared transmitting nothing like a word." "There was a cross round one guy's neck." "I noticed that." "You told me, Dick." "The corrugated metal roof shook in the rain." "The men were safe." "I said goodbye to you then, Pat." "Did you?" "Then I began to wait." "The rain seeped in under the door." "The lights went out." "You told me, dear." "That was the time I should have died." "Let us examine what you did." "We led a quiet life, we grew stronger we walked behind the plow and as we worked year after year the yellow dust that filled the air softened the Buddha's well-known face and made him seem like one of us." "We ate wild apricots." "The taste is still in my mouth." "Once we had roast chicken with peppers." "And a light film of dust settled on each plate." "Your few subjectivist mistakes" "Only confirm mythology's eternal charm...." "Roused from a state of seeming rest." "Its landscape offers up the ghost." "Small lizards bask among the rocks." "An ancient tactical retreat, retrenched in the inanimate." "These things were men." "These things were men." "When I woke up I dimly realized the Jap bombers had given us a miss" "Thank heaven for that." "Then I went out." "Already it was getting hot, a cloud of steam rose from the base just like a Roman sacrifice." "I never doubted you'd come back." "I always knew." "I felt so weak with disappointment and relief everything seemed larger than life." "I always knew." "I have no offspring." "In my dreams the peasants with their hundred names...." "Unnamed children and nameless wives...." "Unnamed children and nameless wives deaden my footsteps deaden my footsteps like dead leaves." "No one I killed, but those I saw starved to death." "Only they can tell how the land lies where the pitfall was excavated." "The masses stride ahead of us." "Only they can tell how the land lies, where the mines lay" "I can keep still, I can say nothing for a while while the sparks die high in the air the sun moves on." "Nothing I fear has ever harmed me why should you?" "Marshal your forces, I'll lie low." "The drought has made me thin and strong." "When they took off their coats and hung them over branches and the pick scraped the eroded ground I shook with pure excitement." "I shook with pure excitement." "After that the sweat had soaked my uniform I began to take in all the sights." "Picture a thousand coconuts like mandrills' heads or native masks mi|k oozing from their broken husks the flooded rib of a palm frond where several centipedes had drowned unsanded wood that smelled like meat" "Jesus, it grabbed you by the throat." "Wonder what I was doing then?" "Dressing up as if you'd walk in at any moment." "The war was dislocated." "Go on dear." "Don't let me interrupt." "The war was dislocated." "Hold a shell up to your ear." "Guadalcanal sounds distant, roughly like the sea." "The east is red;" "as we ride eastwards to Peking preoccupied with our last long triumphal march." "As they advance we melt away into the underbrush." "We strike while they're still asleep a single spark sets them alight." "Cast the net wide and draw it in." "Peking watches the stars, Nanking sleeps naked." "Murderers stretch out in doorways in Shanghai." "As we ride eastwards to Peking." "I shut my eyes and, listening well hear the old harmonium we left behind." "Yenan rests like a wise virgin." "I dream that schools of small transparent fish race down a shallow river." "As we ride eastwards." "To Peking." "We recoil from victory and all its works." "What do you think of that, Karl Marx?" "Speak up!" "You won at poker." "I sure did." "I had a system." "Five card stud taught me a lot about mankind." "Speak softly and don't show your hand became my motto." "Tell me more." "Well, the Pacific theater was not much to write home about." "Yes, dear." "I think you told me that." "—| read it while I did my hair." "—I was "Nick." I must have told you that." "Christ, it was beautiful." "I swapped Spam for hamburger meat and roped in a few men to rig a stand." "They called it "Nick's Snack Shack."" "I found the smell of burgers on the grill made strong men cry." "The revolution must not end." "Now, Bougainville was a refueling stop" "Each fighter pilot that came through got a free burger and a beer." "Done to a turn; rare, medium, well-done, anything you say." "The Customer is King." "Sorry, we're low on relish." "Drinks!" "This is my way of saying thanks." "I am old and cannot sleep forever, like the young nor hope that death will be a novelty but endless wakefulness when I put down my work and go to bed." "How much of what we did was good?" "Everything seems to move beyond our remedy." "Come, heal this wound." "At this hour nothing can be done." "Just before dawn the birds begin, the warblers who prefer the dark the cage-birds answering." "To work!" "Outside this room the chill of grace lies heavy on the morning grass."