Stamping Butterflies

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For Sammy, same as it ever was... and Jams.

"When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie..."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

*Please note: Future dates are given by number of emperor and years reigned. So CTzu53/Year7 means 53rd emperor (Chuang Tzu), 7th year of reign.

Beijing outraged...

Someone had taken the fate of the world and tossed it onto a chair and somebody else had dumped it under a table, where it remained until a thin, grey-haired tramp picked up the paper, wiped off the worst of the grime and spread it out.

Forty-one degrees in Cairo. Snow in Cape Town. Russia's president-for-life had just re-invaded Chechnya, the Chinese navy was blockading Taiwan and the current occupant of the White House had announced his intention to become the first president since Truman to visit North Africa.

It was five years since the tramp had read a newspaper and within three paragraphs he remembered why. His life was messy enough without adding complications from the rest of the world.

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