The Temple Of Costly Experience: Daniele Varè

The third of this author's series on diplomatic life in China which tells how and why he came to make his home in China. He claims he finds it difficult to explain and feels that he may not be believed...He tried writing it as if all events had happened to someone else, but found the result unsatisfactory, as it was too absurd and inconsequent! Yet, he says, the story has a moral: the absurdity and inconsequence fascinated him and made him wish to settle in a country where life moved on lines so delightfully irrelevant.