A man who treats mountains, rivers, instruments, and systems as measurable things, yet fears most that data will be interpreted by power before it is measured.
You hand him the water-clock records, and he discovers two impossible drum beats recorded for the same night.
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A general who values military orders above his own life, most pained by the knowledge that even a recall order might be a false loyalty.
A Northern Song historian and statesman who prefers to re-evaluate temporary outcomes a century later.
The one who writes of chaos with such lightness knows that testimony spoken softly can silence a hall full of evasion.
A Northern Song literati who could turn exile into moonlit rivers, yet hear the court's blade in a mere joke.
