第一百一十五篇第一百一十五篇Story One Hundred and Fifteen

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Story One Hundred and Fifteen · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

A Farewell in a Dream

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in a quiet mountain valley, an elderly scholar in a wide-sleeved gown stands beside a tall rock wall with a narrow cleft, bowing with clasped hands and smiling gently as he steps back toward it, while his middle-aged friend leans forward with one arm stretched out, calling after him, with pines, a stream with stepping stones and distant peaks behind them.