About a month ago, walking along the sidewalks of the French Concession, I saw the most beautiful scarab beetle. It was black with metallic gold markings and it too was strolling the sidewalks of the neighborhood. I hope it found a mate and survived to produce its own gorgeous offspring.
Buses in Shanghai are, naturally, bus-shaped: long, rectangular vehicles with rounded corners, rows of windows, and wheels. The local transport also have mirrors that hang down in front on either side of the windshield, rather like large drooping antennae. The other day I saw a bus being towed. With its front end suspended while its hind end remained on the ground, it looked like nothing so much as a tomato hornworm rearing its head.
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