for two days now there has been a frightful caterwauling coming from above my bed. it sounds like a parliament full of wrathful bats having a shouting match taiwanese-style, which i am used to, except that there aren't any bats in garden street. i wonder what on earth it can be. i do seem to be plagued an awful lot by mysterious things that holler in the night.

also von wishes it known that it is not google but the reischauer institute that's sponsoring his trip to a symposium at belmont. there von i've huan-ed your qingbai.