it seemed that she, like me, was pulled in two directions, wanting to get on with life but also longing to capture the moment of perfection, savouring the ordinary but still honouring the ideal. But even as i pondered these dilemmas - if you plucked a special moment from life and framed it, were you defying death, decay and the passage of time, or were you submitting to them? - I grew very bored with them.

-- Orhan Pamuk <Istanbul>

听说北京也有了不安全事件，青迟和维拉要注意安全。

我在这边一切都好。勿念。