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...first is Hellena, Florinda’s sister, played wonderfully by Kirandeep K. Deol ’05. The scenes involving Hellena and Willmore are among the most dynamic and entertaining in the play. Hellena’s vivacious personality doesn’t quite fit the future path she has selected (nun), but Willmore comes along in time to make her reconsider...
Without a boat to drag, the walk along the Qutang towpath only takes four hours. A sampan carries us to the north side of the Yangtze, where the path runs some 50 m above the late-summer waterline. About 1.5 m wide, it's paved with well fitting flagstones running westward through light brush. Only a few sections have crumbled since its completion in 1900, a sharp contrast to most roads in the area. Below us are traces of lower trails, narrow and treacherous paths used by workmen who needed to be closer to the river. Short, granite pillars line...
...summer temperature rises to 38?C as we enter the unshaded canyon. After two sweaty hours we reach Windbox Gorge, the most spectacular section of the trail. Here the path has been chiseled out of the sheer cliff wall; some sections narrow to less than 1 m. To our left, the trail drops nearly 70 m to the rushing waters. There is no handrail, forcing us to move carefully. There are no boats below: it's the first time I've ever been in the Gorges without the accompanying puttering of a motor and chattering tourists. Our solitude is complete...
...city of Fengjie at the start of the Gorges. I find myself thinking about the climax of Hersey's novel, in which a tracker falls to his death in Windbox Gorge. A few weeks ago a Chinese journalist died after plunging from a similar trail in another gorge. The path was good, but it was raining and he slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions that Hersey added poetry to his tale as well as drama: the men rarely sang the stirring folk songs the author eulogizes...
Infuriatingly, the entertainment industry has chosen this path not out of constraint but out of greed. Digital distribution dramatically reduces the costs of business for intellectual property companies, because it eliminates the need for companies to move atoms in the physical world in favor of pushing digital bits across the world information grid, in the words of MIT futurist Nicholas Negroponte in his book Being Digital. It’s common knowledge that out of a $16.99 CD price, artists get about a dollar, record labels get $5 to $10 and the rest goes to the retailer. These prices reflect...