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XVI: Parting Guests 



IN the Chinese language there is a picture for 

 the word "hospitality," which any foreigner 

 might guess. Two quick strokes of the pen in 

 a fork to represent a biped, a flat stroke above 

 him, the proffered roof. Take the horizontal 

 stroke away and you have mere man, destitute 

 and seeking shelter. Add it and you stand com- 

 mitted. What you have is his. That that simple 

 act is fraught with responsibilities, we discovered, 

 when in a similar attempt to communicate by 

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