Chapter Twelve: Silent Accord

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Xiaoyao visits Shijie's husband, Dr. Jiang, at the famous old Chinese medicine pharmacy across the road from Shijie's restaurant, and asks him an awkward question.

Shijie inducts three new members into her Daoist group, and gives them specific instructions on how to make the best use of their novitiate.

The fat monk describes the design of a group, why it has the structure it does, and how academics so often get it totally wrong because they have no idea of the concept of "correction."

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Xiaoyao Xingzhe, the self-styled carefree pilgrim, has lived and worked all over the world, having crossed the Gobi in a decrepit jeep, lived with a solitary monk in the mountains of Korea, dined with the family of the last emperor of China, and helped police with their enquiries in Amarillo, Texas.

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