1 | She then went to take a seat outside. Before sitting down | |
2 | When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. | |
3 | This is a rare configuration, and one that has astrologers all abuzz, for it will not occur again, after 2009, until 2022. | |
4 | Behind her in the room lightning lit the window like a white sheet waving and the baby cried. | |
5 | Yet the Chinese have taken our measure, and decided that we won't act. Until or unless that changes, we're just whistling in the wind. |