Mei felt an indelible impression of a good fight, a brave struggle and a strong resistance, as though she herself were the torn newspaper. Watching the newspaper fl oating downstream, she was rather dissatisfi ed and much saddened. She sighed profoundly as the newspaper disappeared. She then realized it was the water that had drifted her past away. And it was the twists and turns that had taken her to the isolation of a sea where the white sails of her freshening life billowed in the wind while she was unaware of the undercurrent, the dark tides.