12-30-2016, 06:34 PM
This is lovely, dukealien.
"[N]o less than" is correct, but in another sense 'less' means 'more' with regard to hiding/blocking...so there's something else in the logic of it--maybe some sense that 'white or gray clouds [hide/block] no less than black' might make 'more' sense--but then I'm still jet lagged (and I've another 7-hour flight in a few hours)...
"Beijing sienna, sandstorm brown"--nice! I've weathered a couple serious Beijing sandstorms, sienna indeed (though I believe the 'sand' is connected to the historically/poetically significant loess soil, which the Chinese call 'yellow earth'). More recently, however, the dark cloud in which Beijing is daily cloaked (to one color-monitored degree or another--there was a 'red alert' around 10 days ago) is a highly toxic one produced by automobile and factory emissions. I do find this ineluctably current image, which almost daily peppers Chinese and international media, a bit of a distraction in trying to embrace your more poetic one, but the required slippage from toxic dust to Beijing sienna, even if 'environmentally incorrect', certainly brings back misty memories for me.
Thanks for posting!
"[N]o less than" is correct, but in another sense 'less' means 'more' with regard to hiding/blocking...so there's something else in the logic of it--maybe some sense that 'white or gray clouds [hide/block] no less than black' might make 'more' sense--but then I'm still jet lagged (and I've another 7-hour flight in a few hours)...
"Beijing sienna, sandstorm brown"--nice! I've weathered a couple serious Beijing sandstorms, sienna indeed (though I believe the 'sand' is connected to the historically/poetically significant loess soil, which the Chinese call 'yellow earth'). More recently, however, the dark cloud in which Beijing is daily cloaked (to one color-monitored degree or another--there was a 'red alert' around 10 days ago) is a highly toxic one produced by automobile and factory emissions. I do find this ineluctably current image, which almost daily peppers Chinese and international media, a bit of a distraction in trying to embrace your more poetic one, but the required slippage from toxic dust to Beijing sienna, even if 'environmentally incorrect', certainly brings back misty memories for me.
Thanks for posting!