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I have moved this diary to http://www.realpolitik.dk/not_to_think_of_a_white_bear.html - as it is not uncomplicated to go on blogspot for chinese bears.

a western beast

I can see there are high hopes in me, and such great expectations can make a creature want to do it's best, but I do feel I have remind you, that I am but a western beast - the selfindulging bear that Dostoyevskij saw in the eyes of the free men in western Europe- the beast of the dualism of freedom against good manners.. I will do my best to do what is expected, but do forgive any errors, and please remember how difficult a job it can be, to meet people as a polite and interested brother, when one has been trained as a beast for so long - and taught that glorious freedom dependended on my ability to roar.

I look very much forward to this first task as a new bear, and I hope that my efforts will encourage other bears to venture out of the mind and into the big world where they are but little critters.

We wonder if the claws will pass the security, and because we are not ready to lose them entirely, we decide not to bring them in the handluggage