We once had a coherent ruling class, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), who more or less owned and ran the United States from its founding through the 1970s.
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
Indeed she boycotts the construction of a setting, and when she announces that “she would go out of a window and the hotel would go into pieces” (45), she threatens to destroy the house of fiction, the very framework of the window of imagination. The suggestion of smashed glass, of a transfenestration that would let a hotel burst into pieces, plays on the topos of the destroyed mirror-image.
Li-Ching's favourite treats was the ice ball, a predecessor of ice kachang. Made of shaved ice moulded into the shape of a ball and drizzled with syrups of different flavours, children in the 1950s and 1960s loved the ice ball.