Carnival

Editor's note · excerpt

Yanyou writes: "Children scramble for candy thrown from floats, hoarding enough to last a year. … Adults numb themselves with alcohol; children, with sugar." Li Kejin writes another kind of carnival, in Looking for the Wind: "The white winds' great carnival … leaving only a single bloom, a white mushroom cloud, twisting in slow rapture with the black of night." Six dusk-and-midnight pieces from Li Kejin's Looking for the Wind cycle thread through the issue. Two of Yanyou's social observations sit between them.