Memoirs of the Sea

These stories are notes on the fields of my novels, and on the fields of life. According to a good Anglo -American tradition, any such book should be preceded by a line: all the characters and situations indicated here are fictional, any coincidence of names or facts with reality, existing people or events - chance. I would do the same, but only what accident or coincidence is here. Everything is true. Or almost everything. Of course, I moved the bricks a little, put them in the order in which they arose in time or space - but the bricks themselves are absolutely real. Master Chen