Unbalanced Vision

I was going to encourage you to go to The Turks exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts yesterday or earlier today, but was sidetracked by something else. Anyways, it's too late now; the show is over. It was brilliant, brilliant. Silly of me to book a ticket for 17.00 when the museum closes an hour later; I had to glance around 50% of the display when each one of them deserves more attention. There were an exciting collection of fur coats, carpets, drawings, books, chests and plates... A familiar painting was shown before my eyes: the earnest Chinese pilgrim Xuan-Zhang with a tiger at his side--our history textbooks, remember? Read this as well.