Modern people don't need history. Even the black-swan events from 2019 to now are merely records. The events of the past seem to us no more real than Aurelianos and Arcadios. Ueno-gawa Rin will write her own chronicle of the nude artist.
In those earlier years, though Zhao Dong often tagged us with "completely useless," we had coordinates for what we were doing. Now you need to learn to be a completely useless person.
The effectiveness of political correctness lies in the widespread sympathy held for minority communities.
The phonological basis of Japanese cold jokes is that Japanese has no tonal system and thus an abundance of homophones.
The Nantong Civil Affairs Bureau's ban on the sale of paper money is unimpeachable in its intent.
The most insufferable people on the Night Boat are village pedants who come pre-loaded with their trivia and wait to ambush you with it.
The flower shop has two cats. One is a ragdoll, with long fur, looking clever; the other is a white cat with a face full of spots. The shopkeeper says they're from fighting.