more page more page more page more page more page more page more page more page more page more page more page more page karen cunagin sypher
He understood by the clothing hanging out of their windows that each of these white skyscrapers was in fact an apartment building. He glanced at the map in his lap; he was looking at Aldrich Bay, Quarry Bay, and the model housing project at North More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher Point. As the plane began its maypole dance
to the airport on the Kowloon peninsula, and Salvant could see the buildings more clearly, they looked like upside-down wasps nests, bleached white by the sun, row upon row upon row of them. Farther ahead, he could see Hong Kong More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher central, the geographic center of the Asian dynamo that ran from Tokyo zerona
Seoul in the northeast through Singapore in the southwest. The Hong Kong stock market was said to handle the third largest dollar volume of any market in the world. Although he had never More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher expected to have any money, Salvant read economic and business stories along with everything else, and these writers-from scott mckillop
The Economist, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Times-all told him East and Southeast Asia was where the future was. The Europe that had produced Michelangelo More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher and Mozart was to be left behind. In Hong Kong central, scores of incredible glass and steel towers lay in a haze like cypress in battle of marathon
bayou. A number of them were even covered with something that looked like moss of some kind. The tops of several More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher skyscrapers penetrated the murk, and their tinted widows reflected silver, and gold, and the pale blue sky. As the plane descended to the field, the Kowloon peninsula was straight ahead. There langdon perry
an obvious height limitation on the Kowloon side, and here the buildings looked like crew-cut More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher skyscrapers. The razzle-dazzle of the International style was restricted to Hong Kong island. Salvant look a taxi from the airport to the hotel at the New World Center. The taxi began its journey on Prince Edward Road, langdon perry
became Ma Tau Wai Road; Salvant wondered if Ma More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher Tau Wai might not contain those wonderful Chinese mushrooms. He discovered there were just five kinds of cars on Hong Kong streets: red taxicabs of plebian brands, and the most expensive models of Rolls-Royces, Mercedes Benzes, BMWs, and Hondas; these were either va lotto
white, or metallic More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher silver. The eccentric exceptions, a defiant little Renault or awkward Volvo, or yellow paint, were nice little surprises. The New World Center was a vast, sterile mall at the southern tip of the Kowloon peninsula, and Salvants suite overlooked the splendor of Hong Kong harbor and More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher the inspired, mirrored geometry broken cowboy
the followers of the architect I.M.Pei. The marble and glass of the mall intimidated people who perspired, thus rendering the malt spiritless-a reflection of the corporate imagination that had financed it-and the shops were clearly intended for overpaid businessmen and for More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher travelers whose idea of adventure was to be measured for langdon perry
suit on the way back from Singapore Slings in the hotel bar. Salvant had accepted employment as a millionaire without considering all the consequences. For example, was he to give up his privacy? Judging from his More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher experience with newspaper and television people in the United States, he wanted no part of the va lotto
theater in which celebrities were eternal players. If Sing Sing Boyd had in mind locking him up in places like the New World Center, a cultural Moonbase Alpha, devoid More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher of ideas not involving some permutation of greed, free of odor and climate, he knew he would surely lose his mind.
He decided dark victory
take a walk in Kowloon. He checked his map and decided to walk north on Nathan Street, into the heart of the Kowloon More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Karen Cunagin Sypher district. .