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| | Prayer Wheels :: China by Bike :: April -- October '98 |
 | | Another old woman, motioning, "clockwise round the base first." I know she has watched me, and the monk has not. |
 | | He chides her, the silly old woman, "no, he is to go upstairs." She chides him back, with gentle emphasis, "no, he must go clockwise, clockwise round, follow the flow." The monk waves me up the stairs again, but I descend, motioning with an arching hand, "no, clockwise, always clockwise, clockwise round." |
 | | I follow her, clockwise round the inner dais, my hand touching the posts where she touched her head. |
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